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The future I want and we used to be promised looks like the Jetsons or Star Trek, where everything menial is automated away, I have time to pursue what actually interests me, and I get to chose my own path in life. The future we got was Cyberpunk 2077 without the neon aesthetic and socks that wear out from standard use in the span of a year because nothing is built to last any more.
I think the star trek future is still coming...just remember that in star trek canon, the 21st century is very interesting.
Valid point, the Star Trek universe is not without its dark history and calamitous events, still the Federation, for all its flaws, its evil admiral problem, and Section 31, even shortly after the atomic crisis, it's still a society that has solved poverty and homelessness on their own planets and eliminated most medical annoyances, like the common cold and headaches.
And even the Ferengi the cartoonish caricatures of unrestricted capitalism are quaint compared to the horrors that capitalism of the real world present day.