Before the movie The Matrix  was the TV series Star Trek .  Either way, both the series and the movie show the progression of technology...

A friend recommended that I read The Fifth Sacred Thing  by Starhawk, and all was good with Chapter one about this beautiful civilization that reminded me of the Peruvian cosmology.  Then Chapter two sickened me but I kept reading.  This book about the future of humanity is like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale with the division of an ethnically diverse, Earth-honoring non-violent culture versus a dystopian, white-supremacist world of corruption, slavery, poverty, human