The Jetsons

I was flicking through the channels on pay TV the other day when I noticed The Jetsons starting on one of the cartoon channels.

Something sinister about the Jetsons occurred to me that I had never thought about before. If the future is supposed to be so great, why is everything set way up high above the ground? Is it that the surface of our planet is uninhabitable in the future?
Maybe it is completely taken up with farmland to grow food, maybe the ground is completely laid to waste with mining and garbage dumps, maybe it is all parkland (yeah right) or maybe that’s where the poor people live.

The vision for a better tomorrow isn’t made any better by the fact that the only places apparently being built are schools, sports stadiums, shopping centres, businesses and apartment buildings. Something that is unfortunately being mirrored in our modern day world (except for schools).

Is there nothing else for us? What about gardens, parks, places to walk and ride bikes.