"Future Almost Lost"

This essay analyses the effects of technological and scientific developments. Dystopian films tend to portray technology as taking over social practices and issues such as materialism, military, science, and industrial based politics. Technology is beginning to reach into each of these areas and it is the prediction of dystopian fiction writers, that technology will be in control and dictate these subjects rather than allow the power to remain with the people. The essay poses the question, are these dystopias critical of technology? by offering criticism on current social, economic, and political practices. Or on the other hand, do these science fiction dystopian films offer solutions to the inevitable? In some ways, I believe that both can be true depending on the film: the technological take over is inevitable because of the current practices upheld by our society.