I also think there is a negativity bias in effect here. I have noticed that dystopian stories like Gattaca always seem more realistic, even when they are not.

I also think there is a negativity bias in effect here. I have noticed that dystopian stories like Gattaca always seem more realistic, even when they are not. Look at 1984, it got almost all of the details wrong, and yet, many people say it is somehow visionary because it had a few things somewhat right. That's, I think, because almost all of it is negative, and because of that natural bias, we tend to think of these of more relevant.