@dcc agreed,

one one hand it was an optimistic era but there was an anxiety about misuse of technology.
so many of those nightmares are coming to fruition.

I was looking though the cyberpunk 2020 source book a while a go and its wild how much of that came to be.

Deus ex is an insane example, like so may things about the plot that you can look at and go "wow that's us now"