• What is the moral of the story?
• Looking at the futuristic dystopia that Metropolis describes, what is your outline of futuristic dystopia? How do you see your future? How do you see our/the worlds technological progress?
• About the specific set design: How are the differences between the establishment and the working class thematized? Which similarities do you see?
• How did the future look like two years ago? ⇒ The 7 technologies changing your world (World Economic Forum)
• Technological Progress: Our World in data

Jim Heimann (Ed.), Future Perfect, Vintage Futuristic Graphics, Cologne, 2002.
You can read the foreword Futures That Never Arrived by Bruce McCall here.

• A future that never has arrived? Do you think the presence of futuristic machine drawings like the ones you can find in the above links played any role for the development of todays existing machines?
• What is todays equivalent of those futuristic graphics?
• Is there a difference between science and science fiction?
• Take a look into the mirror. Which machines control your life? What do you think about that? Are there ways to change things?

• Retrofuturism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrofuturism
• https://de.pinterest.com/shape5/vintage-retrofuturism-sci-fi-art/

Fischli-Weiss - The Way Things Go 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lm48xH6PaY

Fischli- Weiss - The Way Things Go 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXrRC3pfLnE

Fischli- Weiss - The Right Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQcPx6oUPmQ

Fischli-Weiss - The Point of Least Resistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeRlFbWzzFU