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.

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

Still, “Gliff,” which blends the speculative, literary and dystopian, feels chilling and fresh. The novel is set in a fever dream of a dystopian near-future. Though no year is specified ...

Steam Spring Sale is upon us, here to terrorize wallets and flood backlogs worldwide. And to save your poor wrists from having to scroll endlessly and find the best savings there are, my frail ...

Wolfenstein 3D is the granddaddy of all FPS games. Contrasting its widespread availability on other platforms, Wolfenstein 3D surprisingly never received an official Genesis release. Planned for a ...

“Leave it to a bunch of children who’ve never worked a real job for a single day in their lives—and still haven’t graduated college—to come up with some obnoxious slave-driving dystopian ...

It was a commercial failure at the time of its original launch, but gained significant acclaim for its dystopian setting and thoughtful writing. The late Harlan Ellison, writer of the original ...