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by tim-tday 89 days ago
Sci-fi, also known as speculative fiction tries to explore what technology might mean for humans who live among it in the future.

The warnings from sci-fi are a good hint about what might go wrong with technology. Surveillance causes dehumanizing oppression (take your pick but everyone knows 1984), false accusations cause injustice (minority report among others), human augmentation and dna modification and create prejudice, division and revolutions (gataca and star trek), ai displaces humans and leads to mass unemployment and despondency (pick one)