Meadow337
Former Moderator
A dystopian future is a favourite of sci-fi writers and filmmakers alike - usually with one 'enlightened' protagonist against the whole world .... sort of like the lone gunslinger in a Western .... but is that bleak future inevitable?
Can these books help us recognise the various paths to the those futures and avoid them?
Does 1984, for example, teach us the lessons we should (need) to learn about giving up too much freedom in the name of 'safety' ... aka ever increasing amounts of distance monitoring through CCTV cameras etc?
Do any of the many novel focused around a future in which humans are bred in tanks give us warnings about the dangers of some of the current research into cloning? Or at least how we legislate its use should it ever become possible?
Does "Running Man" (either the book or the movie) give us pause to reconsider the effect of reality shows?
Can these books help us recognise the various paths to the those futures and avoid them?
Does 1984, for example, teach us the lessons we should (need) to learn about giving up too much freedom in the name of 'safety' ... aka ever increasing amounts of distance monitoring through CCTV cameras etc?
Do any of the many novel focused around a future in which humans are bred in tanks give us warnings about the dangers of some of the current research into cloning? Or at least how we legislate its use should it ever become possible?
Does "Running Man" (either the book or the movie) give us pause to reconsider the effect of reality shows?