I actually found Clog Magazine's (no link print-only) take on Scifi and its effect on society more convincing. The authors argued in a 100 page issue with seve

I actually found Clog Magazine's (no link print-only) take on Scifi and its effect on society more convincing. The authors argued in a 100 page issue with several essays that we built the futures we imagined in SciFi. In otherwords, we need to stop imagining terrible futures so maybe we'll stop building terrible futures. Our future is defined by what we can imagine, and if all we spend time thinking about is awful things, then thats what we will bring about within a margin. Its why Star Trek: The Next Generation is to me, the most influential and daring Science Fiction piece in the last 50 years, because Roddenberry dared to imagine a positive future full of possibility. And we've already built many of of the pieces of technology he imagined (Communicator, PADD, talking computer etc)