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All this plus "coaxing knowledge into dream"... Brave New World's hypnopaedia comes to my mind...

• pmlnr 5y ago
  Brave New World is set 400 years after the Ford T-Model. A 100 passed since; 1/4th of that book has already become true. The interesting bit is that if you're part of Brave New World's society, it's not a bad place... it's just stuck in time. There's an original series Star Trek episode where they ask the question: can they disturb a society which hasn't progressed for centuries; their answer was yes. I have mixed feelings about that, but I certainly wouldn't like to see humanity to stop evolving, dreaming, building, and if we keep this up, we might just will.
  • acuozzo 5y ago
    For what it's worth, I think of the Eloi whenever I think of the ends of unbounded "progress".
• dumb1224 5y ago
  Haha I've just been reading Brave New World and this jumps up.
• floren 5y ago
  We've already got Fahrenheit 451's "Seashells" in the form of the AirPod--your constant companion, even when you sleep! Your average person reads a dystopian novel and finds it frightening because they can follow the author's extrapolation from the present to the fictional setting. Advertisers and other immoral beings read a dystopian novel (well, they probably read the Cliff's Notes) and think, wow, he's right, I bet people would put up with that sort of thing if we pitched it right!