It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.
Science fiction is the very literature of change.
My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.
On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.