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“It made me think of all the things women hold, literally and metaphorically.” Yes, they hold cabbages, balloons, phones. But also: “The home and the family and the children and the food.

It sounds fictional, but the “science fiction science” or “sci-fi-sci” method is meant to predict the effects of real upcoming technologies on society before things take a dystopian turn. Researchers are attempting to apply the scientific method to technologies that are still speculative, or have not yet made it into the mainstream.