A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment 26/07/2021 (2017). Source: Netflix screenshot
It has become axiomatic to say that the world is becoming like science fiction. From mobile phones that speak to us (reminding
Star Trek fans of tricorders), to genetically modified foods, to the Internet of Things and the promise of self-driving cars, people in industrialised nations live immersed in technology. Daily life can thus at times seem like visions from the pulp science fiction of the 1920s and 1930s – either a world perfected by technology, manifested in events such as the 1939 World’s Fair, with its theme ‘The World of Tomorrow’; or a dystopian nightmare, such as Aldous Huxley’s
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