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I think arguably the most famous example is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four with the overall theme of surveillance Big Brother-style by a totalitarian regime in a dystopian future where free speech and thought are punished, which isn’t too far from reality in certain parts of the world.
Global government surveillance itself, though, is very omnipresent in modern society, even if it isn’t exactly like it’s described in the book all around the world.
What are other books that predict the future in an eerily accurate way?
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Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson has MMO style virtual universe with avatars.
Brave new world seems far more prophetic than 1984 honestly. The idea that we’d entertain ourself to subservience rather than be forced under a boot is way more accurate to western countries.
I thought “Stand on Zanzibar” by John Brunner was eerily prescient.