Brave New World Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwells's Nineteen Eighty-four are the most influential futuristic novels of the 20th century (Firchow 83). In Orwell's story the state controls its citizens with fear and punishment. Winston Smith (protagonist of 1984) is forced to love Big Brother by the starving rats in room 101. ... This new technology multiplied the world's grain harvest 2.6 times between the years 1950-1984 (Brown 18). ... Since 1984 world food production has slowed and new technologies do not promise a great increase in world food outpu...

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