Indeed, and as H.G Wells postulated in The Time Machine who's to say a utopic society would actually be good for mankind (who eventually evolve into small rabbit like creatures in that timeline due to the elimination of a need for innovation)
Well... Evolution doesn't work that way for one. A 'Utopia' would be a good thing.
Agreed on Utopias being boring though- hell, the very original Utopia itself wasn't a Utopia in the way we now mean it. It was a boring, bland place.
Though its likely the future will be a rather nicer place or at least just as good as today there's no fun in that. Stories need a challenge, a threat or somesuch. Hence future worlds are never perfect.
AH follows the same rules.