I&#x27;m a bit perplexed by his issue with the realism of
<i>futures in which we wear mini-dresses and three-piece suits, drive gas-burning automobiles (or hovercars: it&#x27;s just a rabbit&#x2F;smeerp replacement), carry handguns (or blasters: see rabbit&#x2F;smeerp), eat the kind of food we eat today, live the kind of way we live today, and most importantly think the way we think today.</i><p>Especially after an article attacking space opera tropes.<p>Frankly, if the sci-fi of half a century ago had assumed that a decade or two into the next millennium we&#x27;d live in neat little houses on suburban Earth, don suits to go to work in our (non-flying) car, eat hamburgers and worry more about humans in other countries than alien empires it would have been absolutely right.