2014 Kinda Sucked: A Look at Our Slow Descent Into Dystopia

This year was, to put it as gently as possible, the devil’s playground. Oh sure, every year has its horrors and there are far worse annums behind us (the Crusades, anyone?), but 2014 proved to be a year in which long-festering social, environmental, and political problems were exposed in ways we have not seen in a very long time.

Here’s a look at 20 of the more dystopian things that happened in 2014–in both fiction and real life–and just how foreboding they really were.

By Devon Maloney

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/2014/12/2014-year-in-dystopia/