Would this be considered Politically Incorrect...

good point

Exactly

Do you have a time machine? How can we even know what happens in 2027, when we're still here in the past?

It's impossible to answer your question until we are actually in 2027.

However, 'improvements' or at least 'changes' (as 'improvement' can be an opinion - more colors and resolution, for example, do not automatically equal 'better' or 'more beautiful' - a black box on grey background is ugly in 1920x1080x24bit palette, but a beautifully crafted spacecraft in 160x240 with 16 colors can be breathtakingly beautiful) SO FAR include..

- Some interesting movies and games came out (The Matrix, World of Warcraft, etc.)
- Internet and cell phone technology has vastly improved - no longer do you have to wait an hour to download a 6 MB file
- Prices of said services have come down
- Selection and variety of computer tech has vastly increased, rendering mobile emulation of even relatively high-tech systems viable and enjoyable
- CPU power has vastly increased, rendering emulation of PS2, Gamecube and Wii viable even on a mid-range PC
- Graphics cards have entered a higher dimension, being capable of realtime-rendering of sceneries, polygon amounts and detailedly (?) textured objects you wouldn't ever believe are possible in 1997
- Connectivity and communication possibilities have vastly increased - in 1997, I doubt it was possible for a japanese streamer to just casually 'call you'(for free, quickly and easily, on your computer), or people almost anywhere in the world to be casually talking with japanese people in VRChat and meet an enormous amount of japanese people in the progress
- Hard Drives have expanded in size (though not as exponentially, as they used to - I used to be able to buy a double-, or triple-size - or bigger - hard drive and just dump the old hard drive's contents in the new one and still have plenty of free space - that's not possible in the era of 'ordinary individual can have 18 TB of hard drive space easily and casually, although it's not enough'), making it possible to collect, buy, download and store all kinds of things from movies to TV shows to games to DVD Magazines to your own videos and photos without having to fear the space running out (at least too quickly)
- Prosthetics have taken an enormous step forward, and some 'legless' people can now run faster than 'legful people' with specially made leg prothesis's (what's plural of 'prothesis' anyway?)
- Robotics have taken a huge step forward, soon we'll all be able to try to run away from doglike robots that don't fall or slip, and can climb any surface and jump 50 meters high - what fun future we'll have!
- Drone and R/C tech has also vastly improved, rendering it possible to take all kinds of footage previously inaccessible to most people (doable only with actual helicopters) - unfortunately, this also means killing people is easier now, and those shocking drone murders are still giving me nightmares (I almost wish I hadn't researched that stuff)
- Programming languages have improved, and together with the CPU power, now a casual individual can just use some kind of fast BASIC to create all kinds of fun projects, where previously 'BASIC' languages would've been too slow and cumbersome for those
- New software exists, making possible things you couldn't even realistically imagine in 1997 (for example, Artrage, Adventure Game Studio, etc.. though I am not sure how old those are, but didn't possibly exist in as good a form in 1997)
- Youtube exists (has given me quite a lot of help, tutorials, entertainment, thoughts, answers, and has been pretty good for researching certain things)
- New tech solutions for old systems - You can use all kinds of SD-cards, Flashcards and such with old systems now, like Commodore 64, Atari 800/2600, Super Famicom and so on - you can even have old music synths, like Yamaha's OPL series in a modern or older PC so easily you don't have to build a real DOSBox system to use a real Yamaha chip to compose music, and so on .. you never have to wait 2 hours for a game to load on a real system from an unreliable floppy or cassette, when you can just speedload it from a SD card..
- Camera / monitor tech - although in some ways backwards (film has more than 256 shades of light, unlike 24-bit digital systems, 60Hz NTSC with interlace actually did bring you 60 fps capability, but nowadays this was reduced to 30 fps - of course tech has improved all the time, so I am sure 60 fps is a norm nowadays, and even 'HDR' is hopefully slowly becoming a norm everywhere so we -finally- get more than 256 brightness values for our graphics, movies, systems, etc. - common TFT monitors are way dimmer than the old CRT monitors and TVs were, so watching movies on them kinda sucks - but I haven't kept up with the absolutely latest stuff, so this may have changed)

Have to stop this list at some point, but yeah, there have been tech advances since 1997 that I absolutely love. So many things are better now.

Serious question: what's improved since then

We're on our way to becoming actual circuits in a machine. How can that possibly compare to the quaint 90s, when people still acted like civilized human beings?

Excellent observation. In the '90s, the '90s were my least favorite decade. Now I'd give just about anything to have things like they were in the '90s again. Nothing has improved since then. We all have a huge tv in our living room and a little computer glued to our hand 24 hours a day. BFD.

DON'T WORRY...THINGS WILL BE BETTER NEXT YEAR...IN THE FOURTH GRADE.