The sci-fi series “Silo” is the latest in a string of popular post-apocalyptic dramas with an increasingly uncanny resonance.

In a totalitarian version of Great Britain, hovering somewhere in an adjacent present or near ­future, people are either ...

Better to share technology broadly, in bite-size increments, than to smother it with regulation from the start, prompted by ...

Now, America is going to get a real up-close view of that. Trump’s first term had numerous professionals to serve as ...

This is not the twist, it’s the rough setup — something odd is happening in this small community, but Paradise creates the ...

Hum by Helen Phillips, our November/December Book Club pick, is an all-too-possible projection of how tech might make our ...

The first edition of a new column by Peter Knegt considers the movies as a place to reorient us to what really matters, recharge our belief in what's possible and inspire us to persevere.

The Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2025 calls for papers on the theme of "Approaching Dystopia" for the conference, set for April 5-6.

Adverts are watching us – or they could be soon. This is the message conveyed by Digital Dystopia, a new artwork to highlight ...

How does it feel to live through the birth of a transformative technology? Historically, the experience has proved unnerving. While technologies like the printing press, the power loom, the ...