The Boston Globe, May 6th, 1999
Staff reporter Doreen Iudica Vigue covers education for the Globe. It's 1999. Where is my robot, dammit? I grew up watching "The Jetsons" and believing the promise of science that someday, in the kitchen of my future, would stand an automated matron in an apron, scrubbing pots and pans and mixing martinis at the push of a button. But here it is, 30 years later, and the closest I'm going to get to a Rosie of my own is if I hotwire the blender to the dishwasher, toss in a cocktail onion, and press "pulse." Futurists from Walt Disney to World's Fair hawkers had some interesting ideas about how te...
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