Sentences with phrase «ya dystopia»

How, you wonder as you slink out of the store, did we wind up in this dark retail dystopia?

Both climate change and inequality were «two key issues» that would drive us to either utopia or dystopia, Lagarde stated.

She also gets into the backstory of Hulu's award - winning dystopia The Handmaid's Tale:

What's your take: Is what's being built in Toronto a dystopia of corporate surveillance for private gain or a giant step closer to a more sustainable, enjoyable urban future?

Media universally panned it — for instance, Wired referred to it as something out of a «darkly satirical science - fiction dystopia» — forcing the people behind the program into full damage control.

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

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Much commentary in the US has suggested that there is no way out of the dystopia that we've constructed for ourselves, short of deleting Facebook and turning away from Google.

Jonas won't rule any of these dystopias out, but he believes the third is most likely --» democracy allying itself with a kind of pseudo-scientific health - worshipping eco-maniacal post-family feminism, culminating in a whopping tyranny to make autocracy, or even oriental despotism, look like a Boy Scout jamboree.»

And at the end of this road is a flat - tax dystopia.

To a secular liberal, it might look more like a descent into the dystopia of The Handmaid's Tale.

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.»

But as the cave dwellers of MacIntyre's dystopia emerge into the light, what they see is not the Sun of Plato's ideal world but mere shards and fragments of the past, with no coherent way of putting the pieces back together again:

When exactly did utopia become less interesting than dystopia?

The heroine remembers the time before when she and her friends had dismissed news stories of violence done to women (as readers might dismiss literary dystopias) as «too melodramatic»: «We were the people who were not in the papers.

Like the cursed fig tree withered from leaf to root in Mark's passion narrative, the infertility that plagues Atwood's dystopia is a prophetic sign of the withering of a whole culture.

But it's not a furnace - in - the - future type of 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...).

The sense of the end of history has been expressed, both in the extraordinary popularity of dystopias, as well as, paradoxically, in liberal philosophy that does not lack utopian traits (Francis Fukuyama).

In an era of television characterized by fantasy, science dystopias and larger - than - life drama characters, Penelope Alvarez feels like the Every Mom.

The allegedly benevolent tyrants who rule this British dystopia have gained power not by force but by vote, promising «freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom from boredom.»

A less sophisticated illustration of this can be seen in the way that science fiction has envisioned various atheistic scientific futures: over the course of the past century such visions of the future have shifted from being utopias to being dystopias.

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.

But perhaps the greatest prophet to foresee the advent of technological dystopia was Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian media critic who passed away in 1980.

Are we drawing closer to utopia, or to dystopia?

Enough of this dystopia and negativity.

Mad Max — Dystopian; Society is crumbling and fucked up but still exists The Road Warrior — Post-apocalyptic; Society has completely fallen apart and everyone is on their own Fury Road — Post-apocalyptic dystopia; A new, completely fucked up society has emerged from the rubble of the old one.

Carol (+350) unbelievably captures the style of the 1950's and Mad Max: Fury Road (+115) creates a unique and bizarre post-apocalyptic dystopia.

One decade since the first iPhone was released and we're living in a zombified, siloed, technocratic dystopia.

In this small nation of 1.3 million people, citizens have overcome fears of an Orwellian dystopia with ubiquitous surveillance to become a highly digital society.

(The latter can be regarded as an ideal system of global governance, as well as a dystopia for national democracies).

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It costs more, short - term, but there's much greater value and security vs a libertarian dystopia, long - term.

A two - tier system, where some are consigned to a lawless underclass, is the stuff of dystopia rather than a modern democracy.»

The demonstrators choose The Handmaid's Tale, now a series on Hulu and based on a Margaret Atwood novel, in which women are relegated to second - class citizenship without reproductive rights in a male - dominated dystopia.

This isn't dystopia, as many think; it's a news report from 2014.

Why our future Orwellian dystopia will stem more from rabid paparazzi than a surveillance state

The Brexit Secretary at least now promises it won't be «a Mad Max - style dystopia», which you might think was setting the bar a little bit low.

Icarus Rising: Of a Nation's Dystopia and a Poet's Rhetoric Book Title: Icarus Rising Author: Emman Usman Shehu Publisher: Topaz Publishing House (Topaz Books) Pages: 94 Year: 2017 Reviewer:...

We're in a fiscal dystopia and playing like there's rainbows and unicorns,» Legis.

Are you prepared to accept shoddy work, inferior and even dangerous products in your pro-business, anti-worker deregulated dystopia?

WHILE many suspect the world is mired in some kind of futuristic dystopia, Feedback finds itself unable to ascertain exactly which writer's fevered imagination we find ourselves stuck in.

IS THE future safe from a robot dystopia?

The good news is that we are not on the verge of what the Boston Globe has called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»

«In discussions of synthetic biology, utopias and dystopias seem to be the only possible scenarios»

Such conversations should also help move the discussion beyond speculation about utopias and dystopias, by recognising that the prospects for synthetic biology are likely to be both less sensational and less forbidding than is generally acknowledged.

Turning the country into an AI leader would allow France to use AI for the public good and ensure that a «Promethean» promise doesn't become a «dystopia,» he said.

In its later life, «instead of trying to model utopia, Biosphere 2 would actually model dystopia — a future plagued by high carbon dioxide levels,» wrote Rebecca Reider, author of a definitive history of the project.

The good news is that we are not on the verge of what The Boston Globe has called a «Matrix - like cyberpunk dystopia» in which we all become robohumans, controlled by implants that «impose false memories» and «scan for wayward thoughts.»