Yes, making an educated guess about how tech will impact a culture and the individuals within it is important; no, reading fiction is not a good way to do this.

Yes, making an educated guess about how tech will impact a culture and the individuals within it is important; no, reading fiction is not a good way to do this. Studying fields like ethnography and anthropology would likely to give you the tools to model the future than cherry picking fictional narratives of the future. Dynamics of mass social engineering would also be of use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(political_science) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(politica...