Deloitte’s CEO had her son watch “The Jetsons” to show him we shouldn’t fear robots

Deloitte’s CEO had her son watch “The Jetsons” to show him we shouldn’t fear robots

The prospects of an automated, robotic future isn’t just the obsession of labor economists and science fiction writers. It’s also unnerving 15-year-old boys.

When Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert’s son told her he worried there wouldn’t be a job for him when he graduated, the head of one of the largest accounting and consulting firms in the world did what any good parent would do: She sat him down in front of The Jetsons .

The Jetsons , an early 1960s cartoon about a family in the far future, “was way ahead of its time,” Engelbert tells Quartz. The show explored […]

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