A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment 26/07/2021 (2017). Source: Netflix screenshot
It has become axiomatic to say that the world is becoming like science fiction. From mobile phones that speak to us (reminding
Star Trek fans of tricorders), to genetically modified foods, to the Internet of Things and the promise of self-driving cars, people in industrialised nations live immersed in technology. Daily life can thus at times seem like visions from the pulp science fiction of the 1920s and 1930s – either a world perfected by technology, manifested in events such as the 1939 World’s Fair, with its theme ‘The World of Tomorrow’; or a dystopian nightmare, such as Aldous Huxley’s
Compulsory jabs for students to attend lectures not ruled out by minister
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University students may have to be double jabbed to attend lectures
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El vicediós siempre es ateo
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Sostener que vivimos en la sociedad de la información no deja de ser una afirmación en muchos aspectos baladí. No porque necesariamente prevalezca la censura -que en función de qué gobierno y contenido, la tentación es una constante-, sino de la yuxtaposición de la distopía del Mundo Feliz de Huxley y 1984 de Orwel. O dicho de otra manera, que pese a que la ciudadanía disfruta de acceso a los medios de comunicación, lo cierto es que las noticias se multicopian en la mayoría de las cabeceras sin variar ni una sola coma, mientras otros hechos trascendentales pasan desapercibidos para la mayoría.