Living inside a dystopian science fiction story is not nearly as fun as reading it in a book or watching it on a movie/tv screen.
Ayep. Welcome to the future. It's a lot like the past.
I had to agree with the folks that say we're living in science fiction. We have swarms of semi-autonomous drones that we use to assassinate our enemies in many places around the world, we have massive active domestic surveillance programs, any telecommunication connection can be tapped on the fly, we can communicate across the world in full video with barely noticable lag or expense, we have robots active on other planets, we genetically modify life every day, we can actually move around individual atoms and do interesting stuff with them, people are starting to do biological engineering in basement labs to create new life, etc. Most of this so routine, we don't even think about it.
Some of us are not surprised that we ended up with combination of Firefly, Shadowrun and Count Zero instead of say, Star Trek where everything is so neat and clean. Tech changes. People don't. Governments don't. We had a chance on July 2, 1776, in June 1783 and another on July 1794. Looks like we've badly blown those. But each and every day is a chance to turn the ship around...