Yes, making an educated guess about how tech will impact a culture and the individuals within it is important; no, reading fiction is not a good way to do this.<p>Studying fields like ethnography and anthropology would likely to give you the tools to model the future than cherry picking fictional narratives of the future.<p>Dynamics of mass social engineering would also be of use:
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