Fictional dystopia or future reality?
To the present day tales and predictions of our future has played a big part in pop culture. Dreams about hovercars, spacecraft and other mysterious machines has been leading the technical evolution forward for years. There has been hope, and happy excitement about what’s to come. But during the last decade things have most definitely changed. Holographic cellphones have been traded for deadly weapons and the hovercars developed into horrendous war tanks. Visions of wealth and prosperity are long gone, only to leave room for discrimination and violence. Something that is pictured in countless of today’s popular books. With Tomorrow when the war began, the hunger games and race against time being prime examples. The major question of course being how likely these predicted outcomes really are. What makes them and the message they’re sending out different? And is this alleged fate inevitable? …show more content…
Australia is invaded by an unknown perpetrator, and at the blink of an eye turned into a no mans land. Both the country and it’s citizens are being held hostage by a foreign power. And with no rescue in sight, they all seem to be headed towards nothing but death and destruction. If anything this books shows how your future may be at someone else's hand. A single military order, a quick decision, from someone of great rank in another country could easily lead to your death. The author paints a picture of a world in pieces and shows how uncertain our future really is. I believe this book is, to say the least, extremely relevant today. With russian submarines in our archipelago and a worldwide tension only growing stronger. And who’s to say that in due time we won’t find ourselves in the midst of a
To the present day tales and predictions of our future has played a big part in pop culture. Dreams about hovercars, spacecraft and other mysterious machines has been leading the technical evolution forward for years. There has been hope, and happy excitement about what’s to come. But during the last decade things have most definitely changed. Holographic cellphones have been traded for deadly weapons and the hovercars developed into horrendous war tanks. Visions of wealth and prosperity are long gone, only to leave room for discrimination and violence. Something that is pictured in countless of today’s popular books. With Tomorrow when the war began, the hunger games and race against time being prime examples. The major question of course being how likely these predicted outcomes really are. What makes them and the message they’re sending out different? And is this alleged fate inevitable? …show more content…
Australia is invaded by an unknown perpetrator, and at the blink of an eye turned into a no mans land. Both the country and it’s citizens are being held hostage by a foreign power. And with no rescue in sight, they all seem to be headed towards nothing but death and destruction. If anything this books shows how your future may be at someone else's hand. A single military order, a quick decision, from someone of great rank in another country could easily lead to your death. The author paints a picture of a world in pieces and shows how uncertain our future really is. I believe this book is, to say the least, extremely relevant today. With russian submarines in our archipelago and a worldwide tension only growing stronger. And who’s to say that in due time we won’t find ourselves in the midst of a