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Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com]

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Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis

In the 1990s the Star Trek series Deep Space Nine predicted a dystopian vision of 2024 homelessness that has parallels with reality.

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Is it prophetic, or do we just have a techno-capitalist elite that looked as those books as a roadmap rather than a cautionary tale?

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