The world's oldest technology magazine is the MIT Technology Review.
Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2011 it produced a special supplement of original science fiction stories written by top writers from the genre.
The Review says its normal mission is to identify important new technologies, and decipher the practical impact they will have on our lives.
The sci-fi edition - with contributors such as Cory Doctorow and Elizabeth Bear - was an attempt to do that in an unusual way. The magazine called this "hard" sci-fi.
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When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic”
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Robert Sawye
Sci-fi author
There's a great tradition at work here. When the MIT graduate John Campbell took over the editorship of Astounding Stories Magazine in 1937, he changed the name to Astounding Science Fiction, and insisted that the fiction contained convincing science and characters.
This ushered in what people say was the golden age of sci-fi writing, producing a hugely influential magazine.
One Astounding story told how to make the atomic bomb one year before Hiroshima.
But trying to predict the future is hard, and often wrong; that does not (however) mean it's a futile exercise. If, that is, prediction is what sci-fi is about.
There are different critical views about this. Some people argue that far from being far-seeing, most science fiction simply projects current concerns into a fantasy future unhindered by contemporary reality. But futurology it really isn't.