Dystopian movies serve as powerful warnings of extremism and corruption in society. Films like "Children of Men" and "District 9" critique xenophobia and societal collapse. Directors like Terry ...

With demagogues, oligarchs and dictators rising like the sea levels, it seems that state powers around the globe are increasingly being used to benefit the few rather than the many, putting the ...

HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-future, in which people’s reliance on technology has gone too far? If you read “The Dream Hotel”, a gripping new novel, you can discern one recipe.

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Following intense backlash, startup accelerator Y Combinator quietly pulled a video from its X account demonstrating a new startup’s AI-powered worker monitoring software. The startup, called ...

Being a great punk rock singer involves so much more than just hitting the notes. All of the genre’s great frontmen (and women) have embodied punk’s rebellious attitude. Regardless of their ...

Anyone who spends time on the internet knows that our demographics, preferences and interests are assiduously tracked by Big Tech companies hoping to capture more of our dollars. They record our ...

The Russo brothers’ upcoming Netflix movie The Electric State may be set in an alternate ‘90s dystopian reality, but stars Stanley Tucci and Giancarlo Esposito say that the movie’s themes of ...

The Dream Lands will be a six-part BBC One series set 14 years into the future. The dystopian drama will explore the impact of climate change and society inequality on the Dreamland Margate resort.

The new scales, which some feel look rather ‘dystopian’, are intended to identify unscanned or overscanned items in a shop and alert shoppers to anything they’ve missed, or scanned incorrectly.