So we are talking about "what could be reality novels" like the following example:
While the other parts of the world have moved from oil to natural sources and partially nuclear power still, for energy, the US has kept relying on oil. Upon the depletion of oil reserves, the US is having huge energy problems. They quickly have to change from oil based energy supplies to Nuclear power, but the building of new power plants requires energy too, the building goes too slow and safety measures are skipped. So there explodes/leaks a nuclear plant. This leads to mass histeria. The main character should be a human from the future writing a history report for school on 'the downfal of the United States.' So you get the constant switch from far future to beyond far future.
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Does imagining the future, and reading potent visions about it, have any effect on what really happens?
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Will it become a truth? I think it not likely, but there is a posibillity. I also don't think it likely that this even when anyone should turn this idea into a novel, would affect the way things will be done.
About the scifi/fantasy debate: it all depends on definitions. I personally would prefer for fantasy to be defined more in the way of high fantasy. Then you would have the difference with science fiction sorted as in how much the story is connected to the world. Along with the 'science' in science fiction of course.