The point isn&#x27;t &quot;the world is exactly the same as the 1960s&quot;, the point is that the world is much more similar to that of the 1960s than the early 2000s depicted in any scifi from that period, <i>especially</i> the scifi written on the premise that the idea that anyone in half a century&#x27;s time would still work in an <i>office</i> and drive a <i>gasoline powered car</i> was desperately unimaginative.<p>I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s a lot of subtle-but-significant ways in which society will have changed by 2065 too (whether influenced by scientific advances or not), but I&#x27;m not convinced that they&#x27;ll find the idea of characters set in their time period eating hamburgers nearly as unlikely or amusing as some of the things we might invent in their place.