Anyone remember "Soylent Green"? It was a sixties sci-fi thriller by Harry Harrison (1964) later made into a movie where the big secret on a horribly over-populated future Earth (set in 2022) was this: the most popular processed food stuff in this urban jungle, soylent green, was made out of dead people!!!

And what about 1984 (1949)? Remember George Orwell's scary glimpse into a future where Big Brother listened to, recorded, photographed, knew all about what everyone was doing.

Or what about all the popular sixties spy movies, which sang cool tunes about the government "giving you a number, and taking away your name" (the most notable being 007!).

In one form or another all these strange scenarios actually have come to pass. In fact, they are now accepted as an innocent part of everyday li…