That's why the most meaningful way to study science fiction is that it's never about the future, it's about the time in which it was written. It would probably have even less to do with the future if he tried something like that today. The most I get from that is the idea that as emerging technology gathers force, the future is so different, it's like an ontological black hole. We can't predict it. Something like the end of your new book, All Tomorrow's Parties .
Tomorrow comes, and suddenly the world has changed.
Or she's become a bicycle, or a flashlight, or whatever she becomes. There's that unbridgeable gap between today and tomorrow. Our children will probably look back on us and be very critical. Or our grandchildren. They won't be able to imagine what our lives were like.