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We’re Living in the Sci-Fi Future We Feared
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The Mary Sue
George Orwell’s “1984” provided an exaggerated insight into what the future might look like with “Thought Police” and intense surveillance.
Movies like “Minority Report” introduced a real future with retinal scans and biometric tracking.
The Sci-Fi genre as a whole gave us oppressive governments, omnipresent cameras, facial recognition, and machines that knew everything about us.
Corporate surveillance isn’t the only issue.
We don’t need to wait for a dystopian future in which every street corner has a camera and every movement is tracked – we’re already living in it.