The article “Our Apocalypse, Ourselves”, by S.E. Smith, speaks to lovers of cinematic dystopia and persons interested in the evolution of the dystopian sub-genre. Smith asserts during this article that, though many of these anti-utopian worlds seem futuristic and out of our realm of worry, many of these plot lines closely parallel issues within our scope of possibility. In addition, Smith looks back in time at fictional dystopian worlds created during the 1980s; these movies centered around nuclear holocaust and the threat of ‘smart’ technology, leading her to deduce that it is not a coincidence that America was at nuclear odds with the Soviet Union, and that technology was going through rapid amelioration during this time period. Smith
