Digital dystopia

[6] One of the earliest mentions is on 2004 when an academic and blogger was expelled for commenting on how the Sims Online Computer game based in the city of Alphaville had become a digital dystopia controlled by "president" Donald Meacham and corrupt faction of robot nobles had become a digital dystopia with crime, cyber-sex prostitution and general civic chaos.

[7] In August 2007, David Nye presented the idea of cyber-dystopia, which envisions a world made worse by technological advancements.

[9]: 36 The dystopian voices of Andrew Keen, Jaron Lanier, and Nicholas Carr tell society as a whole could sacrifice our humanity to the cult of cyber-utopianism.

In particular, Lanier describes it as "an apocalypse of self-abdication" and that "consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence";[10] warning that by emphasising the majority or crowd, we are de-emphasising individuality.

John Naughton, writing for The Guardian, described Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, as the prophet of digital dystopia.