This post makes some good points. While helping us think through potential bad consequences of a technological or social change is an important function of science fiction, it can become a facile way to tell a dramatic story, and obscure the fact that most technological and social changes also have a positive side.
The challenge is to explore the positive side without becoming boring.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
http://mythcreants.com/blog/five-good-ideas-science-fiction-teaches-us-to-fear/
There are still science-positive stories, but there’s also a trend of technopessimism.
That’s not new, of course. Sheckley was a technopessimist in the 50s, partly as a corrective to the excessive techno-optimism of his time.