When I was kid I read Bradbury, Asimov, Clarke and Heinlein while dreaming of how by the time I was "old", I'd for sure be living in a sci-fi future. Humans had landed on the moon only the decade before, NASA had launched Skylab (a REAL space station) and was developing a space shuttle that could go to orbit anytime. Personal computers with modems were actually a thing in stores.

Sadly, I now realize I was correct except that I was reading the wrong sci-fi authors. I should have been reading Orwell and Huxley.