but as Tim Maughan discovers, this is easier said than done. One thing every sane, sensible science fiction writer swears they’ll never do is try and accurately predict the future. It’s an especially unwise idea if you work on short, near-future timescales. Most likely you’re going to get it wrong, and your work is going to look dated and naive. Worse, you might actually get it right - but way too early, making your work look conservative, your predictions blunted by a cowardly imaginat...
