The dawn of the dystopian genre has arrived, and it may be predicting the future. The amount of dystopian novels has risen since the success of the
Hunger Games by
Suzanne Collins, and, after reading
Breathe by Sarah Crossan, I wonder how close to home this hits.
Breathe is about how the advancement in technology has segregated the modern society after the government implement "the switch" which involved relocating the entire population into a biosphere where they now produce manufactured air and let the outside world rot. This may not seem relevant but one of the books main morals is that technology and advancement does not always mean happiness. In the far off future, something similar may happen because even now people are choosing technology over the earth. Peter H. Kahn, Jr. of MIT Press explains how technological nature is beating real nature in the post http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/technological-nature. Revolution is a television show about how humans would live their lives if all technology shut down permanently. We may not always be able to believe certain futures can become possible realities, but if we dismiss it entirely, we will be unprepared for what's in store.
Loving this blog. While on the topic of dystopian futures, you should read a book called Wool-it's one of my favourite Sci-Fi books. Also, I totally agree with books potentially predicting the future. I've noticed that some video games do this as well. My blog does video games, and if you have any extra free time for reading, you should read my blog: http://pixelblogpost.wordpress.com/. If you're not into video games though, pass it on to somebody who is. It's a good blog though, I swear.
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