I consider this to be based on their idea, that scientific inventions will change humanity on large scale, like space travel, etc, and small things will not have time yet to catch up. While in reality small things change fast, and we are still missing large scale changes.

There is for example the Cyberpunk genre (starting from eighties) which predicts things much better. There are much less large scale inventions in that, and a lot of smaller, human life style changing things that were got right. Cyberpunk also started after the world took direction towards the current form of capitalism, and the utopian ideas originating from before sound strange today.