Book review: Sci-fi writers’ warnings were ignored

The Artificial State will see the replacement of the liberal democratic nation-state, and the consent of the governed, with the rule of people by machines

According to the prizewinning Harvard historian Jill Lepore:The sci-fi brigade 'saw our present when it was still the future'. 

• The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
• Jill Lepore
• Allen Lane, £25