Lets all try not to confuse SF writers with futurists and neither with researchers or engineers.
Stories follow the rules of awesome, or they don’t sell well. There is a wonderful Letter from Heinlein to a fan that asked why he wrote, and the top answer was:‘to put food on the table’. It is probably online, but I could not find it atm. Comparing the work of the SIAI to any particular writer is like comparing the british navy with Jack London.
Lets all try not to confuse SF writers with futurists and neither with researchers or engineers. Stories follow the rules of awesome, or they don’t sell well. There is a wonderful Letter from Heinlein to a fan that asked why he wrote, and the top answer was:‘to put food on the table’. It is probably online, but I could not find it atm. Comparing the work of the SIAI to any particular writer is like comparing the british navy with Jack London.
Heinlein also described himself as competing for his reader’s beer money.
This is kind of off topic but I think the prospects being depicted on LW etc. are more awesome than a lot of SF stories.