Are Your Choices Really Your Own? The Dystopia We Already Live In | Vicky Li | TEDxBISZ Youth

We often imagine dystopia as something distant, a dark and crumbling world that can only exist after the collapse of civilization. We imagine scorched wastelands, ruthless dictatorships, and wartorrn futures where survival is the only objective. Our imaginations shaped by books like 1984, The Giver, and Farah 451 has trained us to expect dystopia in some dramatic fashion, an explosion, a revolution, or even machine uprising.We view dystopia as the inevitable opposite of utopia. A genre, a warning, a fiction ...