dystopia

MIT’s Technology Review wrote of labs in which “man rebuilds creation to suit himself” and warned of “a path toward a dystopia of superpeople.”

King also discussed his other dystopias, particularly “The Running Man.”

"Not much of the dystopia in this film is fictional," he notes.

The tone of nonfiction conjectures about the future of Los Angeles generally fall into two categories, elegiac or apocalyptic — and sometimes both: “utopia or dystopia,” in the words of Davis.

We’ll never leave the present dystopia behind without a clear and more appealing vision of where we could be headed instead.