Star Trek
In a single word, we've become what you might call unhuman. Stripping off our human skin brought us to completely new shores, both in evolutionary and intellectual aspects. We're reaching for higher aims in spite of denying all the main features that once built our society. So we've finally crossed the threshold to generation Z and space is at last the final frontier.
And maybe - if humanity wouldn't have acted that human - our society could have become reality. But unfortunately - as you all might know - the United States is no welfare organisation.