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I’ll go out on a limb and say it has to do with the demise of the USSR and the type of futurism that is only possible with a major socialist project in the world. We are only barely now starting to see a revival since the 2010s with the rise of China.
Capitalist futurism, at its root, is about domination over nature. “We” go to the Moon or to Mars, not for any humanistic objective but to claim it, as if to say to the universe, “nothing for me is off-limits.” For the bulk of humanity, for animals, for the environment — there is no future under capitalism.
The futurism of socialist countries has the capacity for humanism, and I think that is reflected in the imagination of society.