The Open Mind explores the world of ideas across politics, media, science, technology, and the arts. The American Prospect is republishing this excerpt. Alexander Heffner: Where do we draw the line ...

Pretty much the only place where marginalized peoples exist in sci-fi and futurist visions have been in dystopias (and their presence is often perceived as a signifier of dystopia), because there's ...

First, best wishes to all at the dawn of the new year. But how long that lasts remains to be seen. At the beginning of 2024, dystopia seems a more apt forecast of the future than utopia. Perhaps a ...

The latest season of Black Mirror is being called its scariest yet, with its creator Charlie Brooker once again playing to our collective angst over the sinister consequences of emerging technology.

In 2015, HBO canned the David Fincher-planned remake of the 2013 Channel 4 TV drama Utopia, a remarkable pharma-thriller with a graphic novel holding a very nasty genetic secret as the MacGuffin. A ...

The starting point for this novel was that I wanted to write utopian fiction. I hadn’t done this before: all my previous novels have been straight science fiction. But utopia, the genre that imagines ...

One look at The Nemesis Machine — an exhibit by British artist Stanza that is making its U.S. debut in the Samek Art Museum's campus gallery through March 12 — will mesmerize viewers of the 12-by-48 ...

CHICAGO — A globe-spanning pandemic, conspiracy-fueled protests, Chicago on the world stage: Amazon wanted Gillian Flynn to create an American “Utopia,” but her adaptation became an insightful piece ...