Not really. What happened was that during the NASA years and the jet age advances, people thought they would be the Jetsons soon.
What they didn’t realize was that that needed the computer revolution in order to control the physics they were learning to harness during that time.
So everyone got tempted by the allure and when it didn’t arrive on time we got all pessimistic. Interestingly, now that sensors and ubiquitous computing were created for other reasons, people are waking up from their self induced comas and realizing that now we actually can do those things because we have enough narrow AI to keep those things behaving properly.
Just takes money and willpower now.
