Five ways George Orwell’s “1984” predicted modern day society
The writer, who died on this day in January 1950 in London, was most famous for two novels which explored totalitarian politics: 1984 and Animal Farm
In 1973, “Soylent Green” envisioned the world in 2022. It got a lot right
It stars Charlton Heston as Thorn, a New York police detective. And the planet he inhabits looks a lot like ours...