Demon Haunted World

I'm re-reading Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan and there are a couple of passages that struck me:

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time-when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."

And:

"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements-transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting-profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."

The book was published in 1997 and rings so true to current events. It's just eerie. So we just need to keep reading Harry Potter books and taking our prescriptions and we should be fine as we slip into a Brave New World. Why can't Star Wars come true or something instead of these other books?