In the 1970s, we were told to ignore warnings of environmental and social collapse. As those warnings come true, once again we are being told that ‘technology’ will come to our rescue (blog): www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/there-t...

In the 1970s, we were told to ignore warnings of environmental and social collapse. That many people did was the result of a concerted corporate-funded fightback against a rising, critical environmental consciousness (blog): www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/there-t...

In the 1970s, we were told to ignore warnings of environmental and social collapse. Once again, we need to resist the fantasy that technology will resolve our problems for us (blog): www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/there-t...

“If we are called on to not fear the future, it might be better to persuade us that we have a place in it, that it is ours to make” – my piece for Big Think on what the so-called tech-optimists get wrong: bigthink.com/the-future/a...

The prevalence of fictional dystopias is not a failing of their creators’ imaginations – really they reflect our fears about power and control under contemporary capitalism (my piece for Big Think): bigthink.com/the-future/a...

“All you have to do is cooperate”: V For Vendetta and the vengeful authoritarian regimes to come under collapse – here’s an excerpt from one of the chapters in my new book, about why conservatism has become so focused on revenge and retribution:
www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/all-you...

The futures today’s tech billionaires really want – As I suggest in my new book, it’s not because they’ve forgotten the (glaringly apparent) lessons of much dark future sci-fi. To the billionaires, these futures are not warnings but promises (blog): www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/the-fut...

“They’re running out of the damn Green again!”: Why Soylent Green and the serious sci-fi of the 1970s predicted social collapse - read a free excerpt from my new book on the predictions made in classic sci-fi films here (blog): www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/why-soy...

Asking whether classic sci-fi films accurately predicted the technologies of today is the wrong question - in the ways that really matter, we’re now living in the futures they warned us about (blog):
www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/the-fut...

The future has arrived, pretty much on schedule – We’re now living in (or have lived through) some of the years depicted in classic sci-fi films. So how successful were they in predicting our future (present)? (blog):
www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/the-fut...

At the end of Terminator 2, we’re travelling down a highway at night, again. Sarah Connor says, “The unknown future rolls towards us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope.” But can we still do the same? (blog):
www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/if-clas...

“Come with me if you want to live”: It’s too late to avoid Terminator 2, but there’s still time for a human resistance – based on my new book on dystopian visions of the future (blog): www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/its-too...

“Bloody paperwork”: How Brazil (1985) dashes the hopes for a luxury, leisure-filled future communism - based on my new book on dystopian visions of the future (blog): www.drmichaeljharrisbooks.com/blog/bloody-...

"It’s not a failing of creators’ imaginations that we’re stuck in dystopian visions of the future; it’s that ...we’ve been stuck on the same trajectory toward futures that are decidedly dystopian." - my piece for PopMatters on sci-f and our stuck future: www.popmatters.com/blade-runner...

"The lack of flying cars in our own time (something that today’s tech accelerationists seem obsessed with) isn’t the point." - my piece for PopMatters on sci-fi, cyberpunk, and our stuck future: www.popmatters.com/blade-runner...