Despite the article, I think the title's premise is very interesting. The resurgence in popularity of dystopian sci-fi really seems to me reminiscent of Peter T

Despite the article, I think the title's premise is very interesting. The resurgence in popularity of dystopian sci-fi really seems to me reminiscent of Peter Thiel's "indeterminate pessimism" - the attitude that the future is inevitably bad. This is a terribly unproductive attitude to have, while the opposite attitude of "determinate optimism" characterizes us during times of great progress.