Sci-fi will never materialize. But the ones passionate about it are so desperate for the faux future that they won't be able to tell when they're being duped.
Just wait until the next great collapse, a disaster big enough to force change. Hopefully we'll have the right ideas lying around at the time to restructure our social communication system.
Until then, it's slow decline. Embrace it.
Sci-fi has materialized, we're living in it now. The problem is it's the dystopia edition.
As someone succinctly put it: The future is here, it is just very unevenly distributed.