Hollywood style materialism has distracted society from building a better future

[KnightInShiningArmorDis92]

What if instead of mansions, yachts, and private jets the people of Hollywood in the 90s and 2000s were more interested in turning their smog covered city

into a utopia with electric cars and green public transport powered by solar, fusion, and nuclear power?

They were also inspired by the French to improve management of nuclear technology.
https://www.reuters.com/business/en...ar-power-plants-inspector-general-2022-02-10/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/readings/french.html

What if instead of being obsessed with owning BMWs and Porsches they supported the funding of electric car development much earlier causing Tesla like cars to be as common in the late 2000s as they are in our timeline's 2023 America?

What if they also supported increasing NASA's budget to at least 1 percent?

Which to leads to humanity having a permanent presence on Mars and the asteroid belt with both crewed and robotic nuclear power spacecraft by the 2030s and fusion powered spacecraft by the 2050s as well as small asteroids that have been spin up to provide gravity for habitats within those asteroids providing shelters to miner astronauts.

And they were excited about funding fusion and 3d printed houses as well.

America would also have to improve it's education system to make all of that happen.

That has been done before.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/10/how-sputnik-changed-u-s-education/

It seemed like 90s and 2000s American high school youth were more excited by materialism rather than being excited to build a better future like 60s kids were.

Has materialism distracted people from building a better world?

Perhaps Disney can use "EPCOT" to promote this vision.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Seems you are not Gen X and have no idea what the 80s were. You are confusing the Boomers 60s & 70s dreamy fun times with the 80's -90's influence of HIV, Crack, car jackings, terrible violence & recessions 80s kids grew up with. Kids in the 2000s had 9/11 and too many school shootings to count plus the massive losses of the 2008 housing crisis.

Gen X did have movies about the future, one was called The Terminator in 1984 but in the story the solution didn't end great for the humans so it was this whole thing.

We also had the wildly popular The Dead Zone TV series in 1983.

For more fun there were our Weekly Readers where all us kids were terrorized about 7 mile Island and Chernobyl plus like every other catastrophe imaginable where we were trained to be critical thinkers and then went off to be the first highly educated population.