Yes, anthropologist David Graeber points out that we shifted from poetic technologies to bureaucratic technologies. Much of the internet is about better ways to filling out forms. (What I'm doing right now on HN.) In movies/games, we've gotten good at merely simulating the future that previous generations thought we'd actually live in.

Maybe anyone born since 1970 expects a cyberpunk dystopia, over starry-eyed scifi alternatives. Graeber writes, "The greatest and most powerful nation that has ever existed has spent the last decades telling its citizens they can no longer contemplate fantastic collective enterprises, even if—as the environmental crisis demands— the fate of the earth depends on it."