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Sci-fi predictions of our terrible dystopian future were wrong


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by Capt. Xerox 4 years ago4 years ago
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When it comes to predictions of our terrible future, #scifi is often spectacularly wrong, but we can still heed some of those lessons because maybe they’ll be right eventually.

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It’s worth studying sci-fi’s false predictions for dystopian futures
The 1972 population-anxiety movie Z.P.G. shows why

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