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In this episode we look at historical visions of the future and how accurate they were, the future of work, and what it's like to predict the future for a day job.
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Articles sur Dystopia
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Alternative facts owe more to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World than Orwell’s 1984.
Every crystal ball has a shelf life, even the most prescient.
The best selling book on Amazon is ‘1984’ – which was originally published in 1949. A historian from Case Western Reserve University considers how the novel helps us think about our present moment.
Utopia and dystopia are combined in current political thinking, from Donald Trump to the universal basic income.
New HBO series reimagines a group of life-like robots programmed with hope but marred in violence. They might be more human than we think.
A sufficiently talented brainjacker could one day influence the behaviour of a person in worrying ways.
The dystopian futures and nightmarish societies that inspire hope but can’t insist on change.
By featuring girls who buck the conventions of their world – and ours – films like Insurgent inspire fans to enact real change.
When William S Burroughs returned to New York City in 1974, after two decades of peripatetic rambling, dubious pleasure and restless escape, the rising rock poet Patti Smith expressed her deep pleasure…
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Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Urban Design, Lancaster University
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Professor of Labour and Globalisation, University of Hertfordshire
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Moore Professor of English and Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
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Professor in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Sheffield Robotics Institute, University of Sheffield
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Maine at Augusta
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Lecturer in Popular Music Studies, University of Leeds
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Professor in Media, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull
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Adjunct Assistant Professor and a founder of the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles
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Reader in Digital Culture and Communication, University of East London
