In the future, everyone will be a garbage millennial.
I mean, to be honest, you’re right, they’re failing to properly contextualize existing technology because it’s changing so fast. I’m just saying that if they were more future-oriented, they’d skip right past it to the next set of plausible technologies. I mean, I’m not running on all pistons and I can come up with this stuff easily enough.
The problem is you end up predicting a portable fax machine.
That’s still a more interesting failure mode and it doesn’t look dated the moment it’s published. TOS has actually aged reasonably well.