Neuromancer

Meanwhile, science fiction expanded from outward-looking space operas ( Star Trek, Space: 1999, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica and others) to explore inward-looking, earth-bound futures narratives. The wave of love and flower power came, broke, and vanished and was replaced by a darker and angrier culture of punk, rap +hip hop and early electronic / Techno. Instead, it became clear that the current technological progress was polluting cities and the environment. We went to the moon but didn’t colonize it. We had nuclear power but didn’t drive nuclear powered flying cars.

Computers became affordable but our homes didn’t evolve into Jetsons-like computer-aided boredom. The 1980s were a reality-check for the technology-utopia-optimism of the sixties and seventies.