One of the things I see people perpetually getting wrong about the aims of various genre categories: science fiction, whatever it’s pretensions, does not do well at predicting the future. Because that’s horror’s turf.

*its, sigh

If I had to speculate further, it’s because science fiction has to follow some sort of rules explicable to the readers of its time. Horror is under no such constraint, thus is better able to reflect or at least dimly mirror a future we cannot grasp + would drive us mad if we did.

(Fantasy meanwhile largely concerns itself with parallel universes not compatible with or reducible to ours: alternate potentials for cognitive activity that may expand our own but will never coalesce with them.)