When will the clock reset and kids grow up to remember something besides 70's pulp scifi as a reference point to what dystopian future was suppose to be like? Maybe something good will come out next year.
Considering George Orwell's "1984" hit the top of the Amazon bestseller list a little while ago, I think the classics are here to stay.
That said, no one's stopping you from "resetting the clock" yourself. If you were to write some decent dystopian-future novels, I know a few people (including yours truly) who would appreciate it.
Free access to all past media online caused culture to suddenly halt just after the turn of the century, and turn from a directed timeline, where fashion mimicked the advancement of technology, into a weird swirling self-referential ironic vortex of ahistorical relativity.
Reminds me of the scene in snow crash with a vastly diminished POTUS.