No sense of timing

The film industry, and some SF authors, have no conception of the pace of events. We should have sent manned expeditions to most of the planets by now if SF had been making predictions instead of telling stories.
    Another film last night, Futuresport, was made in 1998. It offers its Rollerball rip-off as an alternative to war in 2025. But I suppose the people who made the film weren’t to know we’d still be recovering from a global pandemic then and not really in a position to be warring.