The 7 August 2025 issue of Nature included an interesting article on The Science Fiction Science Method (paywall) by Iyad Rahwan, Azim Shariff, and Jean-François Bonnefon.  The scientific method is difficult enough to understand these days, especially regarding previously important but mundane scientific advances such as vaccines.  The Science Fiction Science (SFS) Method is likely to take a bit of work, too.  But the objective of predicting the consequences of future technologies is noble and should be given a chance:

Predicting the social and behavioral impact of future technologies before they are achieved would enable us to guide their development and regulation before these impacts get entrenched.  Traditionally, this prediction has relied on qualitative, narrative methods.  Here we describe a method that uses experimental methods to simulate future technologies and collect quantitative measures of the attitudes and behaviors of participants assigned to controlled variations of the future.  We call this