Based of this thread it looks like people were a lot more hopeful about the future 10 years ago than they are today. Back then smart phones were new, the AI win

Based of this thread it looks like people were a lot more hopeful about the future 10 years ago than they are today. Back then smart phones were new, the AI winter looked like it was over, Google had just started testing self driving cars etc. But today, Google is still working on the same self driving cars, we are still using smart phones as our main handheld device, and while the AI breakthroughs gave us chatbots and face recognition it hasn't made much progress since. So to me it seems like the exciting years are over as the last decade was probably the least exciting technology wise for a very long time. I'd say we'll need a huge fundamental breakthrough for the next decade to not become even less exciting.