Arguably, Aldous Huxley got pretty close half a century earlier than that, but I guess he failed to anticipate that the United States would become and remain so

Arguably, Aldous Huxley got pretty close half a century earlier than that, but I guess he failed to anticipate that the United States would become and remain so ideologically committed to keeping recreational drug use illegal that we'd need to find a more expensive and convoluted means to approximate wireheading.