Itās fun to say how sci-fi didnāt predict a thing but good sci-fi isnāt written as a prediction. The people that try to predict things are called futurists and theyāre all idiots that get it even more wrong than the sci-fi
Thereās one futurist that got it right, and thatās the one that predicted the internet will become so completely full of noise, so completely hostile to civilization, that a decentralized network of concerned citizens will target key internet infrastructure and take down the primary nodes within the US, rendering us without a functioning internet, which in turn leads to a collapse of the US financial system, as other countries replace the arpanet-descended internet with their own localized systems, sending the US into a domestic apocalypse scenario while the rest of the world rebuildsā
the problem with scifi is it creates cool concepts that millionaires pay engineers large sums of money to brute force into reality, with no care for how it actually works
