The problem with your wager is that on a long enough timeline, the doomsayers are always right. So saying anything OR societal collapse is going to evaluate to

The problem with your wager is that on a long enough timeline, the doomsayers are always right. So saying anything OR societal collapse is going to evaluate to true. There are any number of disasters, both terrestrial and cosmic, that can radically change the landscape of the Earth. I also don't really find discussions about what's going to happen beyond our lifetime that interesting for the most part. Often, they're just fantastic wishing attached to some loose thread of logic. The Island Escape from New York The Running Man Akira Strange Days A Scanner Darkly Back to the Future II Blade Runner 2001: A Space Odyssey 2010: The Year We Make Contact Death Race 2000 1984 Terminator 2: Judgment Day Freejack Westworld Real Steel Pacific Rim 12 Monkeys The Abyss Timecop And a host of other films and books are set in futures that are now our past. And while some of these are fantasy designed to entertain, they all make assumptions about what would be possible by that time. And we have fallen woefully short of those predictions. So short, that "flying cars and meals in pill form" is a meme about such predictions.