劉慈欣不無批評地寫道（http://cn.chinadaily.com.cn/2018-11/12/content_37243853.htm）：

科幻的想象力由克拉克的廣闊和深遠，變成賽博朋克的狹窄和內向。

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.

另摘抄一段其他人類似的批評（http://www.sohu.com/a/127192431_413981）：

PayPal 創始人彼得·蒂爾公開表明過對人類文明發展方向的失落：

我們想要一輛可以飛的汽車，得到的卻是 140 個字節（意指 twitter ）。

美國“旅行者 1 號”（ voyager 1 ）飛船，即將飛出太陽系。控制中心努力讓它回過頭，最後看一眼它出發的地球。

Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society劉慈欣演講