John Carmack noted during a Slashdot interview all the way back in 1999: "Making Snow Crash into a reality feels like a sort of moral imperative to a lot of programmers, but the efforts that have been made so far leave a lot to be desired."[1]
1:https://games.slashdot.org/story/99/10/15/1012230/john-carma...
That is so true. I actually met someone who seriously wished to do what he could to make reality like a cyberpunk novel, completely oblivious to the fact that the books aredystopias.
Tech people can be really, really,reallydumb sometimes. That idiocy can go completely unchecked because they frequently arrogantly believe their type is smarter than everyone else.