Science fiction has a tendency toward dystopia. While it is important to point out the potential downsides and consequences of future technologies, I believe that we are lacking in great science fiction stories which depict a world we would be happy to live in. I think over-indexing on dystopian futures has a tendency to steer technological progress toward them rather than away (Don't Create The Torment Nexus). It's a form of _ironic process theory_, a phenomenon where attempting to avoid thinking about something, like a pink elephant, actually causes you to gravitate towards it instead. Think about how many times you've heard someone describe a new technology as a "Black Mirror episode". Technologists build what science fiction predicts, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Instead of creating stories about what not to do, let's create more stories about what we should do. It is easier to steer towards a _North Star_ than it is to steer away from 100 landmines. By focusing on avoiding landmines, we end up charting a course through them. By having a clear destination at the outset, we might find a way to steer around such landmine fields entirely.