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It has always been the aim of science fiction writers to imagine what scientific progress may bring in the future. Dystopian writers are skeptical of scientific progress and meld the imaginary innovations of science fiction with their own pessimistic prophecies, inventing future worlds that use new scientific innovations as tools of oppression. These scientific innovations appear in the form of new technologies that could, in a different world, have been used for human good, but are instead used for ill in dystopic societies. In Zamyatin’s We the One State utilize technology to assist in establishing and maintaining their oppressive societies. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano and E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” and in science fiction films

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