Quotes About Dystopia

in the days when the world begins to bleach and shrivel, and the sun is blotched with death. Socialist and Individualist, they'll all be a little dirt lodged deep in the granite wrinkles of the globe's countenance.

Well, kid, I have seen the future and it shits.

Orwellibb ez a világ, mint Orwell valaha is képzelte volna. Korántsem megrovólag mondom ezt. Orwelli volt ez a világ mindig, csak soha nem tudták a benne él?k, mindig valami mást, többet képzeltek magukról. De hát ma egészen nyilvánvalóan apokaliptikus id?ket élünk. Az apokalipszis nem misztika: maga a realitás. Feltárul, aminek fel kell tárulnia: a valóságos emberi m?ködés.

When I first read Margaret Atwood's novel 'The Handmaid's Tale,' it was Saudi Arabia as I knew it that came to mind, not a dystopian future United States as in the new television adaptation.

Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the darker ones and the dystopias.

Orwell saw that people might become slaves of the state, but he did not foresee that they might also become something else that would horrify him—products of corporations, data resources to be endlessly mined and peddled elsewhere.

This is the twenty-first century. We were supposed to be choking on overpopulation, eating Soylent Green, and joining gangs in the wasteland to protect our supplies of water and gasoline. Instead, we're put out when the Wi-Fi goes down on our flight to Orlando.

I think that's the great thing about all 'Black Mirror' episodes - it really leaves you with this feeling of not knowing how to feel.

Are you okay? he said. The boy nodded. Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

If the world has a mind then it's all worse than we thought.

We can live like it's the first days of a better world, not the like it's the first pages of an Ayn Rand novel. Have this place, but you can't have us. We withdraw our company.

A dystopian story must not merely be dystopian; it must also be a story. Premise can only get you so far.

Orwell conjures up an Orwellian world

There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.

ADDENDUM: SOMETIMES THE FUTURE IS BULLSHIT

That's the future. City-states rammed with again people huddling up against hospitals and looking up in terror for the big storm that will come and go and leave them floating facedown in thirteen feet of shit. And I can't do anything about it.

he is defining the immediate future as follows: old people huddling in big cities, afraid of the sky.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy . Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh?

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

I felt the violence in 'Upgrade' was necessary because I wanted to show what a computer was capable of.

In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.