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Discover LudwigThe word 'dystopia' is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to a vision of a future society in which living conditions have become devastatingly oppressive, often due to the negative effects of advanced technology or totalitarian governments. For example, "In this dystopian future, citizens were forced to work long hours for meager pay."
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dystopia
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A vision of a future that is a corrupted (usually beyond recognition) utopian society.
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (192 pages): Bradbury's classic dystopia about a future society where books are forbidden.
The loss of industry is one key reason for the current dystopia in Protestant working-class areas.
We follow him to the strange, perpetually dark city of Unthank, a bleak dystopia where strange diseases abound and hospitals filter their patients between those they cure and those they send off to provide fuel and power.
Shalini Boland, author of the Outside dystopia series as well as A Shirtful of Frogs, a second world war timeslip adventure I want to recommend Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian is a beautiful tale of the makeshift families that were created when children were evacuated from the cities.
Listening to his fourth album, Ghettoville, can feel as if you're in a dystopia, about to be crushed into pulp by a Terminator.
Chances are that, when you woke up this morning, you realised you'd been suddenly implanted into a hellishly bleak post-apocalyptic dystopia.
His bullshit jobs argument could be taken as a counterblast to the hyper-capitalist dystopia argument wherein the robots take over and humans are busted down to an eternity of playing Minecraft.
The idea that, deep down, still, there ain't no black in the union jack is reiterated every time a Conservative leader evokes Enoch Powell's grim dystopia – from Margaret Thatcher's 1978 "swamping" statement via William Hague's 2001 "journey to a foreign land" speech to David Cameron's 2011 warning against the "discomfort and disjointedness" created by immigrants into settled neighbourhoods.
In little more than a generation Mao's egalitarian dystopia has become a country with an income distribution more skewed than America's.
Older Googlers with families tend to like it less, because "everybody, even young mums, works seven days a week".Another Xoogler, who held a senior position, says that by trying to create a "Utopia" of untrammelled creativity, Google ended up with "dystopia".
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