A scene from Jonathan Glazer’s new short film, The Fall.
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Can we stop our current political free-fall? Perhaps this dystopian short offers a way out.
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Our responsibility to consider how the future might look for generations to come requires imagination.
Janine, a Handmaid, in series three of The Handmaid’s Tale.
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The author has returned to Gilead, 35 years after the original novel was published.
Blade Runner 2049: dystopian vision, now even more terrifying.
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Science fiction is fast becoming science fact, which should be cause for concern.
Emma Thompson is populist demoagogue Vivienne Rook.
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Tune in, Donald Trump: it might just save a lot of lives.
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An exciting announcement about upcoming plans – and we revisit an old favourite episode.
AI can definitely help us monitor floods and could perhaps even deliver more accurate early-warning messages in the near future.
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Series two of the award-winning show has now moved beyond the original novel.
George Cruikshank’s impression of Dickens’ dystopia.
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Charles Dickens imagined a robot theme park way back in 1838.
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In this vision of the future, everything that we currently do in the real world – going to school, going to work, socialising, leisure – is done in a vast virtual environment.
In Altered Carbon, the streetscape reflects the sodden bitumen and garbled neon of Blade Runner’s Los Angeles.
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The new Netflix sci-fi series, with a gumshoe cyborg as its chief protagonist, mines a host of contemporary anxieties and aesthetic influences.
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The use of big data at work could promote well-being – but only in very specific conditions.
Movies from the “neo-noir” genre offer a darker and bleaker vision of the city, in stark contrast to the world of the TV sit-com.
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Movies often portray the city as a dystopia, particularly in the ‘neo-noir’ genre, which explores postmodern themes. TV shows and ads present an altogether sunnier picture of life in the city.
While the original Blade Runner provides some insight into artificial life, and the book explores power and human relationships, Blade Runner 2049 has none of that.
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Blade Runner 2049 represents a failure of the imagination. The film is a series of events strung together and steeped in narcissism, excessive self-absorption, isolation and regressive politics.
The original ‘Blade Runner’ took place in a dreary, dystopian Los Angeles in 2019.
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The relationship between corporations, machines and humans defines modern life in ways that Ridley Scott – even in his wildest dreams – couldn’t have imagined.
Are there other ways to get people to engage with climate change?
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An experiment in getting people to care about climate change uses slick videos, charismatic scientists and calls to action.
The Handmaid’s Tale.
The latest screen adaptation of Atwood’s celebrated 1980s novel has new relevance for women in the Trump era.
Women dressed as handmaids promoting the TV series The Handmaid’s Tale.
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With a new TV series based on the novel - and its bleak vision of women’s rights - The Handmaid’s Tale is riding a new wave of popularity.
Westworld: how far away is this future?
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Near-future science fiction is on the rise, but is it foreshadowing the rise of the machines?
A painting of Alex played by Malcolm McDowell in Stanley Kubrick’s film of A Clockwork Orange.
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On the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth – A Clockwork Orange had a profound influence on the cultural and political landscape.