It's serious (not parody), though I can understand in retrospect why that might be off-putting, and I should probably word the paragraph better. I sometimes watch Sci-Fi movies and focus too much on the technology (forgetting that the entire plot covers some terrible dystopian theme, lol).
I'm personally a fan of "Definite Optimism" views of the future.[1] Western culture used to portray technology really positively in Sci-Fi dramas (e.g. Star Trek), and then sometime around the 1970s, our culture flipped to portraying technology mostly under a dystopian point of view.
Sorry, I don't understand how strapping some screens very close to our eyes will bring us back to the halcyon days of pre-1970 (which were absolutely dominated by the discovery of cheap energy in the form of oil and coal, and in the case of the US, the technological boost of fighting a war without the downsides of it being on its own soil). It sounds like what you are pining for is the time when we reaped maximal benefits of the Industrial Revolution but before we realised the repercussions.
I'm personally a fan of "Definite Optimism" views of the future.[1] Western culture used to portray technology really positively in Sci-Fi dramas (e.g. Star Trek), and then sometime around the 1970s, our culture flipped to portraying technology mostly under a dystopian point of view.
[1] https://simulavr.com/blog/vr-and-definite-optimism/