Following the 90s analogy, it would be like someone writing a novel in early 2000s about the year 1999 - in the same sort of cultural era, but with a darker, more sober mood. The extrapolative expectations of the "orgastic future" was what made the plot of The Great Gatsby possible. More @Wikipedia
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