Best sci-fi for near term future?
I have always thought some of William Gibson's more recent stuff could become a reality in the near term future.
What other sci-fi authors do you think also do well with near term future predictions?
The society depicted in Stand on Zanzibar doesn't seem that far off from today's world.
Probably with all the LLMs out there and AI gadgets popping out, it wouldn't be too far to have a new kind of Human Computer Interaction Interface, maybe not voice, but maybe even thoughts or some sort of new ways of interactions, subtle but way more context aware and versatile with the amount of input required to be very very less.
Charles Stross dealt with the singularity quite a bit.
Philip K Dick when he writes about paying the door to open is getting pretty close.