Dystopia

A still from ‘Twisted Metal’  | Photo Credit: @peacock/YouTube First things first—Twisted Metal, based on the eponymous videogame, is no The Last of Us, and that is not at all a bad thing.…

Prabhas, Deepika Padukone in ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ The title of Nag Ashwin’s Project K has been officially revealed as Kalki 2898 AD. Starring a massive Pan-Indian cast of Prabhas, Deepika…

In “Plan 75,” an alternately warm and chilling dispatch from a dystopian near-future, death mostly happens out of sight, just a few steps beyond the frame. Sometimes we see the grim…

A whole book? No. I changed “Freeforall” to make it more succinct. But to redo a novel, no. I don’t think you need to redo any of your novels, by the way. They are a snapshot in time. They…

“From engineering point of view, it’s very interesting to work with: It’s very difficult,” he says. After the release of FindFace, NTechLab began selling its face recognition tech to small…

The Chinese Communist Party’s reversal of the draconian “zero Covid” policy in December sparked an unprecedented epidemic across the country. But while the surging cases…

Right now, I'm so interested in architecture and fashion and design from the standpoint of new technologies, like 3D printing, and new concerns like environmental conservatism and how to be…

The year is 2034. You’re the owner of a new diner smack dab in nowhere, Midwestern America. Something sinister lurks beyond the confines of your restaurant. Instead of steak in your…

Raffiella Chapman stars as Vesper, a 13-year-old…

When M.T. Anderson published the young adult novel Feed in 2002, there were no social media feeds to scroll in real life. Debuting two years before Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his…