Technological dystopia | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-16

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00:01:42 1 Etymology
00:03:17 2 Common theme
00:03:26 2.1 Politics
00:04:55 2.2 Economics
00:07:16 2.2.1 Class
00:08:06 2.3 Family
00:08:47 2.4 Religion
00:09:30 2.5 Identity
00:10:05 2.6 Violence
00:10:39 2.7 Nature
00:12:36 2.8 Science and technology
00:13:00 2.8.1 Typical dystopian claims
00:16:55 3 In society
00:18:56 4 See also



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A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- "bad" and τόπος "place"; alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening. It is translated as "not-good place" and is an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best known work, Utopia, published 1516, a blueprint for an ideal society with minimal crime, violence and poverty.
Dystopian societies appear in many artistic works, particularly in stories set in the future. Some of the most famous examples are George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Dystopias are often characterized by dehumanization, tyrannical governments, environmental disaster, or other characteristics associated with a cataclysmic decline in society. Dystopian societies appear in many sub-genres of fiction and are often used to draw attention to society, environment, politics, economics, religion, psychology, ethics, science or technology. Some authors use the term to refer to existing societies, many of which are or have been totalitarian states or societies in an advanced state of collapse.
Some scholars, such as Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent, make certain distinctions between typical synonyms of dystopias. For example, Claeys and Sargent define literary dystopias as societies imagined as substantially worse than the society in which the author writes, whereas anti-utopias function as criticisms of attempts to implement various concepts of utopia.