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IF YOU have ever watched Black Mirror or The Last of Us – or read the comic book 2000AD, where Judge Dredd was born – you have experienced the joy and horror of dystopian science fiction.
Dystopia is a place where there is no mercy, no beauty and no hope. Its skies are black with pollution and warlords rule the weak with violence and frenetic, high-tech propaganda. Like Thomas More’s Utopia, dystopia is a fantasy place. Yet, over the past decade, many world leaders have treated dystopia as a realistic vision of our future, one we should use as an inspiration for…
