Dystopia is an imagined place where everything is degraded, and the condition is bad. In the materials we have covered, dystopia was created either with the use of technology of with the use of totalitarianism. Many times, totalitarianism is justified with the purpose of having a stable government and technology is justified by making things easier for the people. These two have their own similarities and differences in terms of dystopian discourses that reflect the contemporary fears of what could happen in the future. Prominent people these days have expressed concerns over the danger of artificial intelligence when it further developed in the future. Elon Musk even said that it is far more dangerous than nuclear weapons (Clifford, 2018). …show more content…
by Phillip K. Dick, androids were created as humanoid robots to help in the labor work in Mars. They were created to be servants to humans which makes sense since many people think that making real humans servants are inhumane. Mrs. Klugman in the story even said that “Having a servant you can depend on in these troubled times . . . I find it reassuring” (Dick 7). However, since these robots are like humans and can think for themselves, they were capable of making decisions for themselves just like humans. However, since they do not have empathy, those that escaped Mars and mingled with people on Earth became targets of …show more content…
In this book, humans are not born anymore but are created in test tubes. The government controls the people even before their birth by creating caste systems with Alphas being at the top and Epsilons being the lowest class, and the Alphas are the ones controlling the world. They do this by controlling the oxygen level of the embryo as “nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par” (Huxley 12). However, the story ended in tragedy with John being assumed to kill himself after realizing he became part of this system that he did not think was