Just look at any of "the world in 50 years" from the 20th and 19th century and you'll notice the extremely vast majority of expected technological advances didn't mature even remotely close to what technocrats predicted, if at all.

We're in the middle of a hype cycle, we've been in hype cycles many times since the 30s. People think everything is possible, that science is an unlimited power and that we just have to work hard enough on a problem to solve it.

Technocrats of the 60s said we'd have 2 days workweek by the year 2000 thanks to automation, artificial intelligence experts of the 70s said we'd reach AGI in a decade, engineers of the 80s predicted flying cars would be the norm, 2012 Musk said autonomous cars would be there "in two years".

Some people view technology as some kind of deity, as if wishful thinking and disguised prayers were all you need