The article claims that it is about our world: "he imagined an America filled with dazzling inventions but rotting from the inside out, one in which the erosion

The article claims that it is about our world: "he imagined an America filled with dazzling inventions but rotting from the inside out, one in which the erosion of civil liberties is thinly veiled by chest-thumping braggadocio about technology’s power to solve every problem. Spielberg's eye-scanning cameras and autocratic cops could easily be exchanged with the overreach of the PATRIOT Act, or the NSA listening in to casual conversations."