> A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. One simple way to tilt any romanticized sci-fi invention dysto

> A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. One simple way to tilt any romanticized sci-fi invention dystopian is simply to imagine the invention is required and the only option for nearly everyone. This works for everything from text-to-speech to robot companions to teleportation to AR headsets to cars.