Gosh, I feel like this is 180 degrees wrong. It’s about using potential ideas from decades or centuries in the future to shed light on the present. Obviously Scalzi is more than entitled to his opinion, but I’ve always felt that good sci-fi is always about today, even if set in the future.
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John Scalzi
Writing science fiction is about responsibly extrapolating from current events and technology into new and intriguing scenarios that shed light on the human condition decades or even centuries from now, but it's also deciding whether the alien name you've created has three or four consecutive "r"s
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