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Originally Posted by Lellu
Yaaah!
Could you be a bit more precise? No science or not fiction?!
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Yes.
Huxley's
Brave New World is set in the future but is more a social commentary and satire of serious contemporary issues of Huxley's time. The book is a hyperbolical view of utopian socialism run amuck.
Fahrenheit 451 too depicts a society -- again set in the future but rooted in issues of the day -- which has eroded.
Many of my favorite Sci-Fi movies (Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, Collosus: The Forbin Project, etc.) were deeply satirical of the issues of the cold war.
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." -- Sydney J. Harris
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