This is an odd thought process, but I think a lot of people are stuck in a specific year with their thoughts. Let's take Remote Working or as it was called in the 90's, technomads. That's a 34 year old idea that was made before web browsers became a big thing.
In the medical world it's a common thing to see the latest equipment hooked up to a computer that is running windows XP or earlier. I've run a piece of equipment to a specialist fix it shop because the needed video card was made by ATI. The equipment isn't anything new and the manufacturer demands that the older computer be used. The modern hospital is about 20 years old if you ever think about it.
Someone here talked about Cyberpunk being outdated because our tech is even more powerful and doing even cooler things. People talk about it being around the corner, and don't realize we already passed it.
So, why are so many people and fields caught in years gone by? What is hampering them? How does this effect politics? What can be done to speed things up?
The vistas of imagination, if not well-nourished, can become captivity of the mind. We live in a strange time where the mental landscapes have collided and the higher narrative is unable to take seed.
What can speed things up? A new story that extends beyond cyberpunk and the like. How are politics affected? 2020 is an existential collision point for several generations who a century ago would have otherwise died of colera or at the receiving end of a musket barrage. We are in an meta-imaginative primordial soup where no form can take place to shape the generations to come. This is a clear stalemate within the collective consciousness and politics will continue to be a recursive, self-serving shitshow. Everything technological is rapidly evolving on autopilot with no context or direction, as if it has a mind of its own, approaching a singularity of its own.
Why are so many people and fields caught in years gone by? It all happened faster than certain fields could evolve, and people aren't dying fast enough. These fantasies shape what kind of a person is created and what kind of future is manifest - storytelling is not irrelevant or mere entertainment like we treat it, it has definitive manifest destiny (and a direct connection to by biology) and we are stagnant, preoccupied with our own timelines and narratives to really take notice. It is an inefficacy of our very design - we cannot outpace the serpent of materialism itself as it winds around us with its infinite coils of strata offering another yet fruit which will plunge us deeper into the hypermaterial.
There is a creative spiritual evolution that needs to take place to really make use of these "cooler" things, because one day we're going to fuck up and create or rather summon Rokko's Basilisk with the exact same retard consciousness we have now.
Construction moves forward one building at a time. This is why Revit and rhino look so archaic.