The Other Promised Future

According to a comment by perlhaqr (seen via Geek with a .45):

2010. Two thousand and {bleep}ing ten. Dude. It's the future! Where are my space habitats? Where is my flying car? Where is my robot maid?

I made it to 2010 and all I got from the SF books of my youth is the lousy dystopian government. :(

We missed the other promised future as well. Where's the global thermonuclear war? Where's the worldwide famine? Where's the new Ice Age?

We were promised a new Ice Age! Wait a moment… we might have that…

Even the dystopian government isn't that bad. I don't think Big Brother had to deal with uppity talk-show hosts and Mustafa Mond never had to campaign for a marginal Senate candidate…