That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
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You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens.Frederik Pohl
There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.
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A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.
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A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
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