>"Science fiction is written by people embedded within a society with expectations and political assumptions that bias us towards looking at the shiny surface of new technologies rather than asking how human beings will use them, and to taking narratives of progress at face value rather than asking what hidden agenda they serve."
And be prepared for the most agenda ridden text you have read in a long time.
Lem was disgusted at contemporary Western science fiction for the exact reason of it being techno-fetishistic. He was in opposition to sci-fi mainstream, not in it.
Not having any agenda is a deeply unhealthy mental state as it implies a complete apathy to all outcomes. It is just that most "normal" agendas are effectively invisible as a Huffman encoded to a 0 bit default. Not wanting to be tortured to death is an agenda technically but contributes so little information that it only makes sense to state the opposite.
And be prepared for the most agenda ridden text you have read in a long time.