No one said that the future isn't amazing (or maybe they did), but the "future" imagined in the 1960s is mostly still science fiction.
Where is my flying car? Where is my robot personal assistant? Where is my food replicator? Where is my day trip to the moon? Where is my space colony on Mars?
It's a good point. I've thought about this before. I think the 1960s imagined future was predicated on basically infinite energy availability. That clearly hasn't happened, but what did happen most people in the 1960s didn't predict.
Makes you wonder what 50 years hence things will be like, given that the microtrends to which we pay so much attention will likely not continue.
Where is my flying car? Where is my robot personal assistant? Where is my food replicator? Where is my day trip to the moon? Where is my space colony on Mars?
Just sayin'. :P