Paper Title: Future Texts Expose Unprecedented Concerns Regarding Human Nature

Author: Michael Waller

Email: ddark13@yahoo.com

Quote: “Often I sit alone at night, staring with the eyes of my mind into the darkness of unborn time, and

wondering in what shape and form the great drama will be finally developed, and where the scene of its next

act will be held.” - Rider Haggard: The Final Paragraph of “She”

"My paper deals with how future texts, such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World or Ridley Scot's "Blade Runner", are meaningful and profound predictions of the future. Through analysis of such texts, I find that they fit either into a human, dehumanized, or posthuman genre. This constitutes three distinct viewpoints regarding the future, each ranging from an optimistic, to a pessimistic, and finally to an abstract perspective on human development. Humanity remains intact, declines, or disappears completely. My perspective reveals that these texts now not only serve as great works of science fiction but as a psychological vantage point on what humans perceive the future as holding and, in turn, how people view the present."