I was talking to friends about the same idea, that somehow in the past few years the world was turning into the Sci-Fi (somewhat dystopian) of my youth. That night on Ars Technica, I saw two headlines:
"Pope’s plane hit by a laser in Mexico City" and "Humans started having sex with Neanderthals over 100,000 years ago" and I realized the world was turning into BAD Sci-Fi.