In 1927, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created a Dystopian Imaginative and prescient of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Near Residence

Extremely-tall high-ris­es towards darkish skies. An enormous dis­tance between the wealthy and the poor. Rob­ber barons on the helm of large-scale indus­tri­al oper­a­tions that flip man into machine. Machines which have develop into intel­li­gent sufficient to dis­place man. These have all been stan­dard ele­ments of dystopi­an visions so lengthy that few of us may man­age…