Move Over, Dystopias and Utopias: Protopias Offer a Hopeful, Realistic Vision of the Future
From 1984 to The Handmaid’s Tale, literature and media are rife with dystopias, imagined states that often act as warnings against perceived political or social dangers in the real world. Though perhaps appearing less frequently, their opposite, utopias, also grace our books and screens. It’s the third member of the hypothetical-future club that doesn’t seem […]