Abstract:When the twenty-first century was still a distant future, it was portrayed as a utopian world (as in The Jetsons). In that imaginary world, human beings would have a reduced working day and, primarily, not perform repetitive and crude tasks -which would be carried out by smart machines.However, other creative minds imagined the twenty-first century as a dystopia (as in Mad Max and so many other movies). They portrayed a scenario of wars, epidemics, and environmental disasters.
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