More importantly, stories allow us to explore morality and philosophy in safe hypotheticals. Faust allows us to inspect the thirst for power and the danger of being willing to do anything for it. Gilgamesh allowed our ancestors to wrestle with mortality and what it means to live a good life. Modern works like Altered Carbon explore generational wealth and the compounding effects of the ownership and control of capital. Even the term “republic” comes from a fictional story Plato wrote about his ideal society. I would say the interaction between fiction and philosophy is far more important than the interaction with technology. After all, the term very term “robot” comes from a play whose entire point was a critique of capitalism where the robots were a metaphor for the working class being exploited by the owners of capital.