Dystopian movies serve as powerful warnings of extremism and corruption in society. Films like "Children of Men" and "District 9" critique xenophobia and societal collapse. Directors like Terry ...

With demagogues, oligarchs and dictators rising like the sea levels, it seems that state powers around the globe are increasingly being used to benefit the few rather than the many, putting the ...

An eerily realistic humanoid robot — purported to be the “world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal android” — twitched to life in a viral clip, which viewers have slammed as “dystopian ...

HOW DO YOU concoct a plausible fictional near-future, in which people’s reliance on technology has gone too far? If you read “The Dream Hotel”, a gripping new novel, you can discern one recipe.

Following intense backlash, startup accelerator Y Combinator quietly pulled a video from its X account demonstrating a new startup’s AI-powered worker monitoring software. The startup, called ...

The Russo brothers’ upcoming Netflix movie The Electric State may be set in an alternate ‘90s dystopian reality, but stars Stanley Tucci and Giancarlo Esposito say that the movie’s themes of ...

A “dystopian” photo from rapper Drake’s Sydney concert last night has made Australia a laughing stock around the world. Forget about straight-up entertainment, concertgoers want much more ...

Anyone who spends time on the internet knows that our demographics, preferences and interests are assiduously tracked by Big Tech companies hoping to capture more of our dollars. They record our ...

However, a picture of Drake standing on stage in front of hundreds of fans waving their signs has gone viral, with one person branding the scene “dystopian”. Among the placards were ones ...

The new scales, which some feel look rather ‘dystopian’, are intended to identify unscanned or overscanned items in a shop and alert shoppers to anything they’ve missed, or scanned incorrectly.