Do we learn more from utopian or dystopian science fiction?
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I'd say we learn different things
I think utopian tends to be older, so more about historic preoccupations and fantasies then, rather than our dystopian fears now
(and we learn very little about the future from either)
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Rudyard Kipling wrote an interesting story on a future global government run by a benign Post Office
he was impressed by Imperial bureaucracy, pre-Kafka, and had a white man's trust of his institutions
(also may have predicted, in a weird roundabout way, the rise of Amazon)