Imagining Futures, Dramatizing Fears

        Daniel Chandler

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        Daniel Chandler, 1994

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        • Chandler, Daniel (1994): 'Imagining Futures, Dramatizing Fears: The Portrayal of Technology in Literature and Film' [WWW document] URL http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/SF/sf.html [Date of Visit]

        Contents

        • Contents Page
        • Our relationships with machines
        • The pendulum of hopes and fears
        • Fear of knowing too much
        • Fear of losing control
        • Fear of losing our souls
        • Fear of supplantation
        • Chronology of technology in fiction
        • References and related reading