Dystopia

Breger, H. "Elias Artista a precursor of the Messiah in natural science." In Nineteen eighty-four science between utopia and dystopia edited by Everett Mendelsohn and Helga Nowotny, eds. Mendelsohn Everett and Helga Novotny, 49-72. Dordrecht, Boston Hingham(MA) Reidel Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1984. 

Dystopia canthorum (lateral displacement of the inner corner of the eye)... 

Klein-Waardenburg syndrome is a single-gene disorder that includes dystopia canthorum (lateral displacement of the inner comer of the eye), impaired hearing, and pigmentary abnormalities. The gene involved is most likely to be a... 

Utopias and dystopias of science - objects offictional science... 

If one looks at the kinds of subject matters of the fictional or semi-fictional sciences, it is apparent that the projections of the future associated with them are mostly dystopias or at least highly ambivalent utopias. Roughly a third of the movies in the sample deal with artificial, supernatural, human, animal, or extraterrestrial life forms, cloning, reanimation, or immortality. If illness and cure are added to this category the share is even larger (by 5%). The utopian or dystopian views about science are clearly dominated by concerns about the manipulation of human and animal life. These concerns are focused primarily on medical research, as we saw above. But we can infer that chemistry has its share of attention. 

Stalin s purges, the slaughter of the Cireat Patriotic War, the Gulag, the KGB and finally the min ess bureaucracy of the State seemed to have removed most of their humanity. It was as if the entire population of the country had been schooled into not thinking for themselves. There was a widespread cynical indifference. It was the Orwellian dystopia made real. The only spark of real humanity was the teenagers wanting to buy my clothes. 

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