I was a latchkey kid growing up, and spent two years getting off a bus and hanging out at the local library after school until my mom got out of work and picked me up. I used that time to read every single science fiction book in the library... hundreds and hundreds of books... which makes me feel like I have a fairly good basis to conclude we have taken the "science fiction dystopia" path rather than the "science fiction utopia" path. #sciencefiction