Dr. Jones Meets George Jetson: The Rise of Smart Medicine
September 4, 2019 In the late 1960s, an absurd sitcom about a self-assured spy was part of the weekly entertainment fare for many American families. It was called “Get Smart.” You might recall that Maxwell Smart was the secret agent whose shoe doubled as a phone—complete with rotary dial on the sole. Little did the creators of that comedic series know at the time how prescient the show’s name would become in the decades that followed. In the 1990s the…