Dystopia Now
Our Jobs Are Drifting Further and Further Away
Thanks to the slummification of the suburbs, agonizing commutes, automation, and outsourcing, jobs are drifting further away in every sense.
The Apple Watch Is the Perfect Wrist Piece for Dystopia
A product that cynically acknowledges the income disparity in a time of dystopian drift, and embraces it.
2015 Already Reads Like Dystopian Fiction
We're not even through January yet, and 2015 is shaping up to be an exceptionally apocalyptic year.
Washington DC's Billion Dollar Dystopian Fiction Farm
Some $4 billion poured into TV campaign ads this year, which are becoming better produced and more negative—many are essentially works of speculative fiction. This may be the year that Washington came to rival Hollywood as a mass producer of dystopian...
The Largest Rooftop Solar Farm in America Will Power 1/5th of a Single Hotel
The massive solar array atop Mandalay Bay is both an encouraging sign of progress and a reminder of how far we have to go.
The US's Infant Mortality Rate Is Abysmal for All But the Wealthiest Americans
America ranks close to Croatia, despite having a nearly three-fold difference in GDP per capita.
We Need Dystopias Now More Than Ever
Only a venture capitalist could argue, as militarized police descend on poor Americans with riot tech, that we should stop talking about dystopias.
The UK Ministry of Defence Says Life in 2045 Will Be Unequal and Violent
A new report sets out a future context for defence and security. And wow, is it a bit grim.
Dubai's Climate-Controlled Dome City Is a Dystopia Waiting to Happen
Dubai's newly proposed Mall of the World—a 4-mile domed, air-conditioned city—is begging to become the most glorious real-world dystopia yet.
New York's $215 Million Emergency Gas Tanks Are Apocalypse Infrastructure
Spurred on by climate change, the federal government is building two half-million-gallon oil storage tanks in the inevitable event of another Hurricane Sandy.
We're Living in the Era of 'Economic Elite Domination'
Welcome to the new aristocracy, political scientists say, where the public's opinion is literally of "little or no" significance in the democratic process.