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Podcast: Many television shows have been uncannily prescient in foreshadowing current issues
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Podcast: Many television shows have been uncannily prescient in foreshadowing current issues

TV writers and producers have described conspiracies, surveillance, and authoritarianism decades ago that have sometimes proven remarkably accurate.
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Many authors have, over the years, anticipated the future, not just the technology, but also social and political structures. In most cases, I doubt they were trying to be prescient, but in writing for the moment, their words transcended the time in which they were composed.

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