If we’re being honest with ourselves, 16 years into the 21st century, it is easy to be a little bit disappointed.
Sure the worst as predicted by Ray Bradbury, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley didn’t quite happen — books aren’t routinely burned, Big Brother is not watching (mostly) and super addictive narcotics are not handed out on demand to keep the populations immoral and tranquilized — but the darkest dystopias weren’t the only future being forecasted in the 20th century when it looked into the not-too-distant future.