Read the following quotation from the famous dystopian novelist Margaret Atwood:
If you’re interested in writing speculative fiction, one way to generate a plot is to take an idea from current society and move it a little further down the road. Even if humans are short-term thinkers, fiction can anticipate and extrapolate into multiple versions of the future. (“What is Dystopian Fiction?” Masterclass, 2019).
speculative fiction - a type of fiction in which the setting is other than the real world, involving supernatural, futuristic, or other imagined elements