Science fiction depictions of the future...?

I have always wondered this. When the writers and cheesy movie makers in the 40's and 50s were forcasting the future as being sterile metal and silverish, did we end up alot like that due to a causal effect by the things that were written or were some of them *writers* true visionaries?|||They were responsible for the way things got designed. Gave a reference (however strange it might have been).|||So where is my hovercar and my cleaning robot? My shack on the moon?|||I have wondered that too! I look at Startreck for example! it used to be a marvel of technology but lots of that came and went!|||Kind of both.|||Of all Sci-fi... Blade Runner is the one I say is most likely to be a vision of our future|||I would say that some of them were spot on, especially Jules Verne, and he was wriing in the 1800s.





I like the trnds that come up - first it was we go out and conquer space, set up all these bases and terreforming, etc. Yet modern sci fi say that we find no other life out there, and that all of our colonizing efforts fail. Old sci fi - lots of warnings, lots of gloom and doom, some particularly valid. New sci fi - periods of gloom and doom followed by learning how to work with the planet, making the planet and sentient being all in itself.





I say the times influenced the sci fi, which in turn helped shape our present. So the sentient earth? Perhaps we will find ourselves guiding to that in the future by our current sci fi.





Shades of Grey - so go buy a Roomba - that's a cleaning bot, even if primitive, it is still a robot.