Date: 2007-12-19 04:22 pm (UTC)
There are bits and pieces... "The Machine Stops" did a good job of predicting how modern communications technologies would cut into face-to-face interactions, for instance. (See also Dick predicting that translation software would be used for stupid word games, or Heinlein having a teenage character deliberately "forget" his cell phone so his mom can't call him).

But it's hard to separate out individual social predictions in the way that you can separate out individual technological predictions.
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