Sci fi anyone? Do creatives help visualize the future?

I was reading a post (on LinkedIn) about Switerland's referendum on a guaranteed  minimum income.  The article mentioned it was a development needed for future societies -- when robots and Ai have taken all the jobs.  

A scary thought. 
What are people going to do when all this technology takes over the functions people previously performed?  

Sounds like science fiction?  Maybe a story starter? 

Maybe not -- if you look at history, there have been many changes caused by advances in technology, some with good effects and some not so good. 
Like the printing press -- might have put scribes out of business, but accelerated education, so more could read and it increased the demand  for writing 

Industial revolution -- craftsman and women replaced by machines, created jobs that were less skilled, but lowered the costs of goods 
An extension of that was Henry Ford's assembly line. It increased production and Henry Ford saw they he needed to expand the market, so he increased wages and the demand fueled the rise of the auto industry.   

Later labor unions further increased wages and benefits as well as working conditions.  The 50's and 60's saw prosperity in the middle class --  roads, great schools and other things were built. 

Then computers -and later, PCs - began doing many repetitious tasks that had previously been done by clerks.

The Internet was developed, giving people (like me) access to an audience.  
Blogging, (ruined journalism, some may say).  Self publishing flourished, and the rise of "free" created new business models and ways of marketing.

Now artifical intelligence is here.   There is software that already writes press releases and other types of regular reports.  Software that writes code. 

Where is this all going?  What are people going to do?  

Ray Bradbury had an uncanny forcast for the future with his walls of television and people walking around with shells in their ears. ( And sports obsessions.)  

What would he say now?   Any new Bradburys out there? 
​Let me know if you've read any forward looking sci-fi recently.  

And thanks for reading.  

Nancy