Assuming that their vision was well-intentioned (insofar as having the government subsidize GPS development was well-intentioned by selling them the fact that it could not be extended to support commercial use), those predictions were fundamentally flawed without understanding the cynical side of human nature.
Now comes the AI, or really LLM, revolution. All the mental gruntwork humans are still stuck doing, underutilizing their brains, can now be done by computers, so the hype says.
Between the massive reduction in the need for physical labor and the removal of the need for mental labor, why shouldn't people be living a much more leisurely life? Why should the fruits of labor reduction only accrue upward, while billions are still chained to jobs producing those fruits?