Technology and the Brave New World :: Brave New World

Technology and the Brave New World   Although the daybook Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, was written long ago, its subject has go a authority more popular since most of the technologies described in the book nurse, at least, partially, become a reality. Huxleys community of Utopia is a futuristic society intentional by genetic engineering, and controlled by neural conditioning with mind-altering drugs and a manipulative media system of rules. Yet, despite the similarities, the reader also finds many contrasts between the devil societies. Perhaps the most salient contrast between Huxleys Utopia and our raw society, deals with the issue of procreation. The majority of babies born in our society today, are tranquillize the result of intercourse between a man and a woman. In many cases the birth of a child is a memorable and light event for the woman. In Utopia, however, if a woman is caught bearing offspring, she will be punished by exile. Offspring not produc ed the societys way is a threat to the societys existence, in the eyes of the leaders. As today, pregnancy, in Utopia, could be prevented using a variety of methods. Where our society uses virile and female birth control methods, Utopia has pregnancy substitute (a procedure in which Utopian woman are given all the psychological benefits of childbirth without undergoing it) and malthusian drill (similar to todays birth control pills). However, red-brick society and Huxleys Utopia both explore the advantages of artificial reproduction, although Utopia has taken it to the perfect The Bokanovsky Process, is a method whereby a human eggs conventionalism development is arrested, then buds, producing many identical eggs. My good boy...Bokanovskys Process is one of the major instruments of amicable stability (Huxley, 7). Not notwithstanding did this method create millions of robot like citizens for Utopia, but the leaders have supreme control over any threat of overpopulation. Utop ian predestinators go down the future function of each embryo, essentially assigning class status. In this way, the leaders of Utopia are also able to keep the social classes equilibrize in the way they felt benefited everyone. Although the reader sees some dissipation of social classes in modern society, in Utopia, the class distinctions were palpable. A five-tiered caste system is maintained which ranks Alphas and Betas on top followed by Gammas, Deltas, and the semi-moronic, ubiquitous Epsilons. The motto "Community, Identity, perceptual constancy" frames the Utopian social structure.