People using Star Trek as a model for the future conveniently forget the part where it takes thirty years of nuclear war and contact with an alien race to get there.
"By the end, most of the major cities had been destroyed and there were few governments left”
Even our brightest visions for the future are post-apocalyptic 😅

World War III
World War III was the last of Earth's three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053. The conflict involved nuclear cataclysm as well as genocide and eco-terrorism. The post-atomic horror in the aftermath persisted as late as 2079. The war was preceded by the Eugenics Wars and the Second Civil War, all of which were sometimes regarded as parts of a single escalating conflict. It resulted in the deaths of some 30% of the Human population, at least six hundred million people, and...