Comparing a Wired Magazine from 2014 compared to 2024 is pretty illuminating to me, because in terms of aesthetics nothing had really changed, the "modern" adverts for furniture or gadgets could be interchangable. But the difference in the content and "spirit" of the writing was palatable, 2014 definetly felt alot more forward looking and speaking towards a more unified crowd, where 2024 was often a barrage of fears and anxieties of X upcoming technologies, or how X industry was not inclusive of Y crowd, the whole thing felt alot more diversionary and tribalistic. I've observed the same thing in media, where alot of the focus has shifted from value through exploration of new concepts to value via representation.
So perhaps corporate greed is one thing, but I'd also argue that America itself dosen't seem very interested in the future anymore either, they seem alot more interested in dividing the cake now rather than making it larger.