Dystopian Sci-Fi

Technology can be scary when you compare it to Skynet and the like. Just look at what we have now: widespread surveillance, the militarization of police, the stockpiling and application of data detailing minute aspects of our lives, not to mention how these mobile applications seem to be able to predict what we want and are going to do before we do it. This dystopian fiction can be a good thing, even if it scares people. It shows what the world can be like if we misuse the technology and not so much as the tech annihilating us. The fiction enables us to take a step back and look at the direction we are going in. This is not to say that there is no positive aspect to the technology that we have today, we just need to be in control of it instead it controlling us.