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Trust Me, I'm a Scientist

The Essay The Future's Not What it Used to Be
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Richard Foster looks at how, in the 1930s, when capitalism and communism appeared unable to deliver utopia, HG Wells in The Shape of Things to Come and Aldous Huxley in Brave New World asked the next big question: can science mend our broken dreams, or will they just become nightmares?

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