Episodes 2084

A Vision of the Future: Between Hope and Dystopia

What will the world look like in 2084, a century after Orwell's famous dystopian vision? Will we be ruled by artificial intelligence? Will we be ground down by a barbarian invasion? Will we still have sex? Will we colonise the Moon? Will we find the recipe for immortality? Will a neo-Marxist totalitarianism engulf us? Or will we be scraping by at a Stone Age level? These and other questions are posed by Pavel Hénik in twenty short stories. He is an experienced writer who has, among other things, two dystopian novels to his name. Some stories are serious and harsh, others are light-hearted and humorous, but they all have one thing in common. They lead the reader to reflect on whether the current direction of the world will ensure a better life for future generations.