Weaponized social media. That's what wasn't predicted.
And now we have returned to a state where humanity is guided by inventive stories and manipulated by propaganda.
That seems… unlikely?
And then "information" is doing a lot of work when you start talking about social media.
A sort of seemingly valid communal society seemed possible so all the other capitalism based ones had competition and as a result were trying to improve the life of citizens.
I'm starting to become more and more convinced that as real fear of Communism disappeared at the top, our systems are regressing to the mean.
Same reason adtech has free reign to bring down society.