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dot com and secure your seats today it's tuesday october fourth twenty two. I'm Jackson Bird today. From the annals of everyday objects

our ancestors were once super concerned about, electric push buttons, like on-off buttons

on any basic device. And you know what? They kind of had a point. Plus, on its 60th anniversary,

let's take a look at one of the most pernicious predictions the Jetsons actually got right

about our present day. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

In our increasingly touchscreen world, many of us long for the tactile satisfaction of

physical push buttons.

It's part of why I've yet to upgrade from my iPhone 8.

I don't want to say goodbye to pressing the home button, even though I know, yes, it's not

actually a button. It uses

haptics to feel like I'm pressing it. I am the exact kind of fool that turn of the century

people thought we would all become if we allowed the use of electric push buttons.

Electric push buttons meaning like doorbells or elevator buttons, anything in which you press a button, something happens,

and you can't actually observe at all how that process happened.

Which was exactly the problem for some folks in the late 19th to early 20th century.

It wasn't some superstitious fear about the devil in electricity, like we might like to

think our simple-minded ancestors thought. No, they actually had a really good point, and one which

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