Science fiction (SF) serves as a mirror and a guide to society's relationship with technological innovation, reflecting shared anxieties and aspirations while shaping the expectations towards emerging technologies. This paper investigates the interplay between SF and in particular its western dominated narratives shaping technologies on a global slace.

By tracing SF's role in fostering cultural imaginaries, this work highlights how these narratives impact societal acceptance, inspire technological innovation, and reinforce unfounded hype beyond the entertainment industry. This research offers a critical, hermeneutic perspective to evaluate SF’s influence on technology. It explores the dialectic between utopian and dystopian narratives, emphasizing the risks of reductive readings that commodify SF into mere product roadmaps, neglecting its nuanced critique of sociocultural dynamics.

The paper offers a hermeneutic perspective to evaluate SF’s influence on technology. Ultimately, this analysis calls for integrating SF into a systematic approach to hype assessment, recognizing its role as a driver of global technology hype.