Our brave new world
Aldous Huxley understood quite intuitively that technology begins to enslave us
Dystopia
Tuesday
Monday
1984 on Audible is a deliciously chilling immersion experience
The audio drama feels different
Tuesday
The deeply human Walking Dead
The show made us feel we could find light in that which set us apart from savagery
Thursday
Let’s ban the metaverse and colonize space
Instead of abolishing humanity, we spread it across the stars
Thursday
How green is your Soylent?
A Seventies sci-fi thriller predicted dystopian eco-nightmare for 2022
Thursday
How science fiction novels read the future
Science fiction can prepare us for what happens next
Thursday
A view from 2027
‘The Pink Shirts are now knocking on doors daily to ask if any Deplorables live there’
Friday
Brave New World Revisited, revisited
We’ve grown increasingly obsessed with dystopian narratives since 2016. But why do we look to Orwell’s vision when Huxley’s rings truer?
