There's interesting stuff in here.
The oil price theory of wtf happened in the 1970s:
What happened in the 1970s that seemed to rob the future from the Boomer generation? Energy. With the end of cheap oil in 1973, and the failure of nuclear power to get cheaper as volumes scaled up, the dreams of the sci-fi authors of the mid-20th century failed to materialize.
Modern sci-fi is can't account for the present:
Though I’ll still go back and read some stuff from the 80s and 90s, I stopped reading new cyberpunk about a decade ago. Around that time it became clear that the pace of real technological change had overtaken authors’ imaginations; newly written cyberpunk fiction began to feel retrofuturistic, like someone writing about the present and getting it wrong.
afaict much of the future cited amounts to decades of work being taken over the finish line by ML. I'm still waiting for the payoff in biotech.