Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present
- Posted on January 10, 2026
- By The Guardian
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Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present
From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?
