* Actors, models, writers and photographers turn out to be lines of code in an algorithm.(HT Illustration: Puneet Kumar via ChatGPT)* A robotic metal platform vrooms into floodwaters and rescues 300 people at a time.* Typhoons rip facades off buildings in China, heat waves dry up a river in Europe, and rains flood cities across South Asia, all in the same month.That’s not from the novels featured here. It’s from the news in recent weeks.Five years after Wknd first explored what dystopian writers were writing about as dystopias unfolded around them, we set out to ask: What on earth are…