Does dystopias predict or create the future?

Question

I was reading through some old HN comments [1][2] which got me thinking, could we be dooming ourselves to a bleak future by celebrating stuff like Black Mirror and the like?[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34294156#34297317 [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26381377#26383356

johnnyworker · Accepted Answer

> You don't write those books because you hope those things will happen. You write those books because you think they might happen.. but you'd rather they didn't.-- Margaret Atwood ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPPxR3PcXkQ&t=93s )

Does dystopias predict or create the future?

I was reading through some old HN comments [1][2] which got me thinking, could we be dooming ourselves to a bleak future by celebrating stuff like Black Mirror and the like?
[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34294156#34297317 [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26381377#26383356

> You don't write those books because you hope those things will happen. You write those books because you think they might happen.. but you'd rather they didn't.
-- Margaret Atwood ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPPxR3PcXkQ&t=93s )