Sentences with phrase «if dystopia»

And if this dystopia seems like your typical videogame world, well there's some sly critique for you.

Not exact matches

It's not hard to imagine the dystopia that would come to pass if Chen's suggestion were to be considered with any seriousness:

Bostrom calmly recommends «arranging matters in such a manner that somebody or something could intervene to set things right if the default trajectory should happen to veer toward dystopia.»

If I want a real dystopia allegory, I'll just re-read 1984 or maybe pick up Brave New World (because I've never read it and now I'll have to to understand Amusing Ourselves...).

Challenging the freedom of indifference with freedom for excellence is essential if we are to deploy our new genetic knowledge in ways that lead to human flourishing rather than to the soulless dystopia of the brave new world.

Rather, the new and ominous possibility on the near - term horizon was something quite different: the happy, if thoroughly dehumanized and massively coercive, dystopia of Huxley's brilliant imagination.

Every utopia is also a dystopia if you look at it from the right angle, and vice versa.

But that is easier said than done in this surreal dystopia, where even if a Norwegian would, he couldn't commit suicide.

It's set in a dystopia where single people are transformed into animals; the title refers to the animal that Colin Farrell «s David has chosen to become if he can't find a mate.

If you're in the mood for a creepy show, you could do a lot worse than Black Mirror, Netflix's sci - fi anthology series that has explored everything from near - future dystopias to a murderous social media hashtag.

If the last few years of science fiction cinema have proven anything, it's that the future dystopia is here to stay.

But if Donald Trump has anything to say about it, there's at least one aspect of this dystopia that won't be around in the future: bureaucracy.

Bill Paxton's presence as Cage's ideology - spewing new Master Sergeant seems meant to align Edge of Tomorrow with Aliens on some level, if not to suggest a dystopia where the dim - bulbed Private Hudsons of the world now ceaselessly march their impressionable troops into the maw of the enemy.

Released: February 24 Cast: Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine Director: Colm McCarthy (Outcast) Why it's great: If you're fed up with «young adult dystopia,» and equally over the zombie movie, The Girl with All the Gifts is good news.

Yet there is something inherently compelling in the mix of utopia and dystopia on display, and the ways in which these are drawn out over the course of the film make it a fascinating, if often frustrating experience.

«The images that we used for this season show the progress of humanity, but at the end of it, we don't know if it's going to be a utopia or dystopia.»

If much sci - fi is about the philosophical question of what it means to be human, or of imagining dystopia to comment on the politics of today, Arrival takes a more personal, emotive approach to the genre.

Indeed, the creative liberties taken in the construction of Horizon Zero Dawn's future dystopia are hardly subtle, but it's still strangely comforting to know that the experts in the inspired subject matter are willing to recognize the value of poetic license, even if it comes at the expense of scientific accuracy.

«If we reach this goal we will start work on this exciting, much - demanded project, and implement Easter eggs in Broken Sword: the Serpent's Curse, offering a glimpse of this futuristic dystopia.

If Mythological Time tells of an industrial dystopia, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's Can't Help Myself warns of a mechanical one.

If the rose - colored agricultural utopia laid out in the report's preface doesn't get the reader's attention, the authors also include a dystopia: the recent drought - induced collapse of agriculture in Australia's Murray - Darling Basin, whose crops, irrigation and reservoir systems and general management have much in common with that of California's agricultural heartland.

Glenn, It seems that they are calculating the cost of living in their imagined future dystopia vs. the benefit if living their imagined future utopia.

I am part of a generation of activists who wonder if it is worth it to have children in the future — to bring them into this climate dystopia.

Even if every environmentalist and climate campaigner agreed with me that we need a radical reappraisal of our present «growth at all costs» orthodoxy (hint: they don't), that still wouldn't mean the only alternative to business - as - usual is some anarcho - primitivist dystopia.

If you are looking for a 2017 dystopia, it's in St. Louis.