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Discussion on: Which modern fiction presents the most interesting techno-dystopia?

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Alan Dávalos

I think the anime Psycho Pass is one of my favorites in this regard.

It portrays a world in which we have a super computer that's capable of calculating a bunch of stuff regarding a person, so things like picking a career and so on are left to it.

But the most interesting part is that it can calculate a "crime coefficient" for any given person, and there's cameras all around the cities watching people so that once anyone goes over a certain limit, they can be sent to correction facilities or even killed on sight.

The story revolves around a newly appointed female police officer who has a gun that can evaluate that coefficient and set itself to paralyze or kill automatically.

She has a partner who's kind of an ex-convict and they go around solving a bunch of cases.

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J. Jordan Stivers

Psycho Pass has a fascinating sci-fi world. I'd definitely recommend it as well.