... our dystopia is controlled by some other beings. Like advanced apes (Planet of the Apes), upper class humans (George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World) or maybe artificially intelligent robots (The Matrix and Terminator Series). Throw in the fact that these advanced being have enslaved the human race and you've ... say banking. And computers have gotten to the point when they can outthink humans, remember Deep Blue beating the chess grandmaster, Garry Kasparov. The world champion said that man would always beat machine, he was devastated at the loss. Machine had just proved ...

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... are almost always much more powerful than the rebels. Consequently, dystopian tales often become studies in survival. In Neuromancer (William Gibson, 1984) it is simply a question of staying alive; in Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1936) it is a question of staying human. In Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) it becomes a matter of preserving individuality in the face of thought control. The ... reach the same heights. The rediscovery and reassessment of William Morris" News From Nowhere (1890), which set the ecotopian template, inspired Aldous Huxley to revisit his own dystopi...

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