Some questions have been sent to me recently which are quite challenging.

As emerging technology continues to reshape society, are there ethical questions science fiction is uniquely positioned to explore?

Hell yes!

Let's start with H. G. Wells, the father of modern science fiction. His first novel is the Time Machine. But his next novel is the Invisible Man, about a man who finds a way to drain all the color out of his body. Which means light goes right through him, unless people look closely to eyes, or see the food in his stomach. He can kill people, he can sexually assault people, but people cannot see him. He's a living ghost and it drives him insane.

It's been a long time since I've read the novel so I'm really certain how he dies, though I think he dies in a burning building, the fire returns the color to his body before the fire consumes him.

Now, my point is that much more than a hundred years ago, H. G. Wells wrote about the dangers of technology.

In the 1960s, the Television show The Outer Limits has an episode where a rocket ship enters a time warp and travels into the future. The pilot of the ship mets a horribly disfigured man, who can change his appearance to others through telepathy. This man kills the pilot and travels back in time to kill the mother of the scientist who creates the disease that wipes out ninety-five percent of all life on Earth. Instead, he falls in love with the woman and takes her to the future where the child that grows up to destroy the world was never born, hence, no plague. And the irony of all this is that the man who takes her to the future was never born in that future, either. The moment he opens the rocket's door, he disappears, too. She is all by herself in a world she doesn't know.

My point with these two stories is that since fiction came into existence, SiFi writers have been writing about these ideas. I've even written some of these ideas about our present technology and this world of ours.

This may not be a perfect answer to all these themes, but it's the best I've got. If you want to know what I write, buy some of my books.

As we cruise into a future where robots replace us, as they are in some parts of the world now, we will eventually cease to exist. The future will consist of everyone  downloading our minds and our memories into android bodies.  But it will be useless, because as machines, we won't have any feelings, no nothing. Music will eventually mean nothing. There will be no sex. Movies and books will mean nothing. Food will be nothing. We won't smell anything. If you think that life will  be better, think again. Without humanity, we won't have anything.