刘慈欣不无批评地写道（http://cn.chinadaily.com.cn/2018-11/12/content_37243853.htm）：
科幻的想象力由克拉克的广阔和深远，变成赛博朋克的狭窄和内向。
This reality is also reflected in science fiction. Arthur Clarke’s magnificent imagination about space has gradually faded away. People stopped looking at starry skies. In the sci-fi works today, there are more imagination about how we live in cyber utopia or dystopia. Writers focus more on various problems we encounter in reality. The imagination of science fiction is abandoning the vastness and profoundness that Arthur Clarke once opened up, instead people are now embracing the narrowness and introversion of cyberpunk.
另摘抄一段其他人类似的批评（http://www.sohu.com/a/127192431_413981）：
PayPal 创始人彼得·蒂尔公开表明过对人类文明发展方向的失落：
我们想要一辆可以飞的汽车，得到的却是 140 个字节（意指 twitter ）。
美国“旅行者 1 号”（ voyager 1 ）飞船，即将飞出太阳系。控制中心努力让它回过头，最后看一眼它出发的地球。
