Sentences with phrase «as dystopian»

You could also imagine such a structure as a dystopian court of elders ruling over how the world communicates, as an invitation to autocratic governments in search of total control, or as a meaningless PR stunt.

So even though almost nobody saw the movie at a first - run theater, it's taken on a cult status as a dystopian premonition of where America might be headed.

Just four months ago, Gamaliel Rodriguez's synthetic landscapes, which depict a world where industrial buildings meld into nature and are absent of human life, could be read as dystopian fabrications.

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Looking and feeling like real organic material, Munk's works can be seen as dystopian solutions for a digitally hyper - connected yet physically disconnected milieu.

It does qualify as a dystopian society.

< br / > Snow Crash is a classic cyberpunk novel but it also qualifies as dystopian in my opinion.

I've dabbled in post-apocalypse and have one book out that could be defined as dystopian.

While some publishers view digital as a dystopian nightmare, Alastair Horne considers six science fiction themes and how they illustrate a more positive future for the industry.

For traditional publishers, digital is sometimes seen as a dystopian nightmare — but Alastair Horne examines some ideas from science fiction that offer the promise of a positive future for publishing.

Fahrenheit 451 has been promoted as a dystopian story because dystopia has become a fashionable notion tossed around without a sense of what it means.

It started out as a dystopian future with little to offer except a badass fight - to - the - death scenario, adapted from the young adult book series.

Thanks to a background in visual effects, Ball uses a reasonably modest budget (as far as dystopian sci - fi blockbusters go) to create a film that feels quite large in scope and exciting as far as the chases, gunplay, and fights.

Elsewhere, Cate Blanchett is roped in for stock cackling evildoer duties as god of death, Hela, while Jeff Goldblum plays himself as a dystopian dictator called the Grandmaster.

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Illustration by Zohar Lazar As this dystopian election campaign has The Uninhabitable Earth Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think.

The idea of our children sitting in lunch rooms drinking powdered shakes is about as dystopian as continuing to feed them overly processed junk foods.

The story of Detroit as a dystopian wasteland has a certain twisted appeal, at least for those of us who don't live there.

She prefers books set wholly or partially in this world, including contemporary romances, mysteries, and thrillers, as well as dystopians, light sci - fi, and urban fantasies.

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To go along with the «dystopian future» vibe, the club's managing partner Peter Feinstein told The Daily Beast that his club is using the robot strippers as a means of attracting a more diverse crowd.

Maybe the clearest and most dystopian glimpse of where all of this is headed comes courtesy of Tim Hwang, who breeds artificially intelligent «socialbots» as co-founder and chief scientist of the Orwellian - sounding Pacific Social Architecting Corporation.

As a Valentine's Day promotion, Netflix's dystopian series «Black Mirror» has created a dating app based on «Hang the DJ,» a fan - favorite episode of the show.

That said, nothing makes me feel quite as anxious as when I watch or read a futuristic sci - fi about a dystopian future of an abandoned society crumbled by technology.

The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»

As a europhile British ex-pat who once firmly believed in the European dream but now sees it for the dystopian nightmare it has become, I urge them not to waste it.

Bignall stresses that Americans» perceptions of robots is altered by a cultural lens which depicts them as an existential threat — one that costs blue - collar workers their livelihood and down the line could endanger society as a whole (think the dystopian future in «Terminator»).

In an episode of the dystopian British miniseries Black Mirror, a woman has her mind replicated as an artificial intelligence program charged with controlling her smarthome.

They may be viewed as an object lesson for a dystopian future of debt peonage.

In Orwell's dystopian novel, a totalitarian state maintains social control by obfuscating reality, using what the British author called «Newspeak» and «doublethink» to compel its subjects to acknowledge as true what they know is false.

Of terminal illnesses in The Fault in Our Stars, as far as I could tell from the previews, and at one another's hands in convoluted, dystopian competitions in The Maze Runner and the third installment of The Hunger....

For those just joining us, Bruce Miller's television adaptation of Margaret Atwood's firebrand 1985 novel centers on the world of Gilead, a dystopian society where a Christian theocracy has forced fertile women into slavery as Handmaids.

Unfortunately the secular humanist worldview as it presently stands is a horrific, dystopian abyss of meaninglessness and pleasure - seeking.

The current wave of dystopian young adult fiction, for example, serves the same kind of public liturgical function for progressive individualism as the New Year liturgy of Marduk's victory over Tiamat once did for a strong Babylonian kingship.

Prof Crook is sceptical of the speculative futures (dystopian or otherwise) envisaged by sci - fi films where an AI «singularity» occurs and machines become self - aware as they transcend the intelligence of their human creators.

Or as Davis put it, Britain will not be «plunged into a Mad Max - style world borrowed from dystopian fiction» after it leaves the European Union.

British writer Philip Pullman, creator of the His Dark Materials trilogy of children's books set in a dystopian alternative reality, described Trump as a «savage».

The ads — paid for by a «super PAC» set up by a pro-charter school group — depict Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, as a tax - happy, commuter - hating tyrant, shouting from a dystopian netherworld marked by the sound of smashing windows and the flash of electric sparks.

In contrast to this vision of reality as television, Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief scientist Bill Joy depicted a dystopian world in which the hubris of the human race will engender nonprotein life - forms that will multiply and threaten the planet.

When a team of Chinese scientists announced last spring that they had edited the genes of human embryos using the powerful new gene editing technology known as CRISPR / Cas9, the world suddenly discovered that the dystopian possibility of «designer babies» was no longer an unrealistic fantasy, but rather a technically achievable possibility that must be reckoned with.

Many people could construe the tagline of Malcolm Gay's recent book, «The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High - Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines,» as a vision of dystopian cyborgs lording over the general public.

If you're imagining the resulting produce as some sort of dystopian, too - green - to - be-true science experiment, think again.

From a Rosie Assoulin pants look to a white, almost dystopian Katherine Mavridis dress, it seemed as though every look that Law Roach styled Zendaya in was made just for the young starlet.

What's more, the second book in the running, as selected by a further third of participants, is George Orwell's dystopian political commentary 1984.

It has become customary to place 2001 in a challenging or dark or dystopian sci - fi tradition as opposed to the all - conqueringly sucrose Star Wars.

Yet another dystopian vision with Steven Spielberg's brand name affixed to it (as executive producer), this time as a cheap - looking but occasionally intriguing sci - fi social study called Falling Skies.

With as much as they have riding on their shoulders, the fact that Minecraft: Story Mode hasn't turned into a heavy, Walking Dead-esque slog is a testament that you can still work through some deep subjects without needing to crush your audience beneath the heavy stone weight of dystopian reality.

As we learned in the first film, a dystopian future society divides citizens into factions based on their abilities — except for «divergents», who act as wild cards in the systeAs we learned in the first film, a dystopian future society divides citizens into factions based on their abilities — except for «divergents», who act as wild cards in the systeas wild cards in the system.

As the grimmer YA - literary cousin to «The Hunger Games» that also pits young people against each other in mortal combat, this dystopian fable set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago treads much of the same ground as the first film with a modest amount of new information and characterAs the grimmer YA - literary cousin to «The Hunger Games» that also pits young people against each other in mortal combat, this dystopian fable set in a post-apocalyptic Chicago treads much of the same ground as the first film with a modest amount of new information and characteras the first film with a modest amount of new information and characters.

«The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» By Joan Alperin Schwartz Once more we return to the dystopian world of Panem, ruled by the evil President Snow (Donald Sutherland) The film begins as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games, along with her best friend and fake soul man, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are about to go out on a «Victors Tour» Life is good for both Katniss and Peeta... They live in comfortable houses, have all the food they could possibly want, nice clothing and are the «darlings» of Panem.