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Cell phones were still futuristic in the 80s, and they were science fiction in the 60s.

No one is that progress hasn’t been made. We expect progress. Moore’s Law.

What is being said is that the world is not wildly futuristic.

But now you're just placing an arbitrary bar on how much progress can be made without it being futuristic.

But it's not _wildley_ futuristic. I'm not taking a flying car to a space elevator to visit my relatives on Mars while my house and pets are left in the care of my android maid.

Wasn't it Buzz Aldrin who said he was promised Mars colonies but got Facebook instead? For some of us, that tradeoff doesn't seem terribly futuristic.

I get your point, but space exploration and robots everywhere aren't the only types of "wildly different" futures. People just have latched onto those two things as facile benchmarks.

We carry supercomputers in our pockets for the primary purpose of broadcasting pictures of food we are about to eat. If that's not wildy futuristic (and perhaps a bit dystopian), I'm not sure what is.

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