Reading all this I can't help to think that we are REALLY bad about predicting societal impact on new technology. We are all scifi geeks (I am so generalizing)

Reading all this I can't help to think that we are REALLY bad about predicting societal impact on new technology. We are all scifi geeks (I am so generalizing) so I think we get a rush by doing it, but I think 99% of the predictions in this topic will be wrong.