Apr 28, 2025: Dan Morfitt and Mark Hurst discuss dystopian movies

For decades, dystopian movies have offered unsettling visions of AI, surveillance, robots, and societal upheaval. Now that some of those nightmares are coming true, Dan Morfitt and Mark Hurst discuss their favorite dystopian films and explore whether they offer any hope for our real-life future.

Show Notes

• DanMorfitt.com, Dan’s website

• WFMU Lite, Dan Morfitt’s show – Thursdays 3 to 6am ETernal. Dan also hosts the Morfitt’s Curiosities segment on Wake with Clay Pigeon (Tuesday mornings)

• From a few years ago: Listener David in London created a compilation and an accompanying infographic of dystopian movies and books from the May 4, 2020 episode comment board.

• Mark writes about Butterflies (screenshot shown below): On Resisting AI intrusions (Apr 23, 2025)