Allan Dyen-ShapiroDec 25, 2017Futurism: Misanalysis of the Recent Tax Bill ExposedEconomics is one area in which Americans don’t need Russians to infiltrate and sow dissent and confusion. We have plenty of dissent and...
Allan Dyen-ShapiroNov 9, 2017The Science Fictional Middle East Part III/It Just Dawned on Me What Mister Robot is Really AboutLast night, on the first televised (rather than webcast) after-show for Mister Robot, the show’s creator, Sam Esmail, obliquely told...
Allan Dyen-ShapiroOct 15, 2017Where's the Punk in Steampunk?Early in my attempts to catch up on a lifetime of not reading science fiction, in preparation for writing science fiction, I came across...
Allan Dyen-ShapiroSep 28, 2017Sciencefictional Economics I: Does capitalist dystopia inexorably progress to societal collapse?Post-capitalist dystopia has been science fiction’s stock and trade since the 1960s. Whether in the permanently impoverished and violent...