Hi orangepeel. Welcome to Fractal Future Forum.
Yeah, I guess you can say that.
When the forum was created our founder (Michael Hrenka) intended it to be kind of an incubator for several kinds of futurist projects. I don’t think science fiction was supposed to play such an important role at the time, but then, afew months later, I had the idea of starting a colective worldbuilding project with this community. The idea was basically what you said, using science fiction to create a blueprint for a better future. This project (now called Fractal Cosmos) was Fractal Future Forum’s most successful to the date, despite now being somewhat dormant, and it persuaded some people to give more importance to science-fiction writing and worldbuilding.
So yeah, nowdays the forum is pretty much what you said, despite the fact that it still harbours futurist projects of very different types.
Anyway, I hope you stay with us. We could use another contributer to help us develop Fractal Cosmos and the other universes.