You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
I can't predict the future.
The best way to predict the future is to change it.
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
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