Forster’s 1913 novella predicted how our lives would one day be ruled by the internet and A.I.
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Tag Archives: dystopian fiction
A Novel Predicted A.I., Zoom, the Internet
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Our Most Prescient Sci-Fi Writer?
A “New Yorker” article argues that Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Seed” wins out over “1984” and “Handmaid’s Tale” in “the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time.”
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Atwood vs. Unregulated Capitalism
Atwood’s dystopian novel is about a future of unregulated high tech capitalism.
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