Buildings aren’t big enough for Blade Runner yet, and there’s still a veneer of government control.

(ETA: No one’s said it yet, but 1984 is so obvious that it wasn’t worth mentioning.)

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    Literally nobody mentioned Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”?

    We’ve already got the chemically suppressed culture of distraction and the strictly stratified social hierarchy.

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      It has some great sociological observations but the parts about family and births is still ways away so I wouldn’t count it in here.

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          I remember the kids participating more like in group brainwashing sessions, not being in isolation with some device in hand