Articles for tag: Cyberpunk, Nineteen Eighty Four, Pkd, Snow Crash

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10 Essential Science Fiction Novels

Foundation Isaac Asimov A collection of five short stories make up this novel about scientists who have learned how to accurately predict the future using “psychohistory,” a mixture of mathematics, history, and sociology. Having predicted a coming dark age that can only be shortened, but not avoided, the scientists strive to preserve as much knowledge ...

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Sorting Political Fact from Fiction

In Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell put a telescreen in every room. The screens can be turned down but not off. They spew propaganda all day every day. Orwell was prescient about some things. While the screens in modern American life do not generally send as well as receive (so far as we know), they are ...

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Socialism: An Economic System

Socialism is a term that was coined in the late eighteenth century. Robert Owen and Henri De Saint Simon were the first to use and introduce this term in order to bring an understanding of another economic system. This modern concept was viewed by Robert Owen and Henri De Saint Simon as an economic Utopian ...