1. Thoughts about the future always reflect the anxieties and the ambitions of the present.
2. Today's world has become immersed in the dreary and often dystopian reality of that technology. Today we have Black Mirror instead of the Twilight Zone. People are more mature about the impacts of both world changing technologies and cultural paradigms forcing that technology into our lives weather we like it or not.
3. GenZ,Y and younger see Big Tech as evil or invasive but are addicted to it (Social Media, smart phones) in the way Boomers were addicted to cigarettes and TV
4. Our Oligarchical economy pushes us to eat meagerly from the wealth pot, while our day to day lives, from health care, to family cohesion, to social silos due to socializing online instead of in-person, jobs that lay us off at the drop of a hat, online apps that are convenient but remove human interaction and treat us like numbers to be managed.
Also all that Impersonal Software that has no soul sucks the soul out of human users. -instead of chatting with the mailman, we get email marketing welcoming our birthdays, now personalized with GenAI. The same issues that we complained about during industrialization of cities gets amplified more with the web and mobile revolution - e.g. we are less socialized..
basically we are more jaded after a century of unbelievable technological innovation.
Has Philip K Dick called the 21st century better than Asimov or Clarke? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7444685-the-door-refused-to...