Since the beginning of the new millenium, our perception has changed: the future is back.
During the fifties and the sixties, positive utopias were still present. Architects imagined new radiant cities. Human kind was expected to expand itself in the planets or under the sea.
This attraction for the future ended during the sixties and the seventies. The main feature of the "postmodern" period was the end of the "big stories" The oil price dropped and noting seemed able to stop the economic expansion. The system seemed to run by itself and the politics became ultraliberal. There way no need to think about the future.