Also Max Headroom, Neuromancer, Robocop, and a host of others. The first science fiction that I saw that deliberately bucked this trend was Earth by David Brin

Also Max Headroom, Neuromancer, Robocop, and a host of others. The first science fiction that I saw that deliberately bucked this trend was Earth by David Brin. There's a line something like "Can you believe that back in the late 20th century everybody thought Nihon was going to control the world's economy?"