In 1994, NIH scientific advisers said no such studies should be funded, except in the context of testing men for infertility--and even then, only if the fertilized egg were not allowed to develop. ... Technology is also evident in hypnopedia. ... Thus, technology overcomes the ability of one to think. ... Again, technology has overpowered the use of one's mind. ... Children, who were conditioned to use technology, grew up. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

It makes the miracle of childbirth nothing more than another scientific process. ... Religion being replaced by technology is another symbol that demonstrates technologies dominance in this society. ... This is the ultimate replacement of religion by technology. ... One theme Alduous Huxley displays in Brave New World is Technology replacing humanity. ... There is also religion being replaced by technology. ...

• Word Count: 1002
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• Grade Level: High School

Harold Bloom describes Brave New World as "a nightmarish vision of the future in which science and technology are used to suppress human freedom" (8). ... In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus could not have predicted the improvements in agricultural technology that were made between 1840 and 1940. ... Carl Sagan, in his book Broca's Brain, discusses science and technology and says that "more than one billion people alive today owe the margin between barely adequate nutrition and starvation to high agricultural technology" (41). This new technology multiplied the world's grain harvest 2.6...

• Word Count: 2421
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The advancement in technology has enabled this Utopian Society to create human life. Although everything about the society is based on technology, it remains supervised by humans. No matter how advanced this technology may be, if humans are directing it, mistakes will be made. ... It's a society in which the human being only serves a sociological and scientifical purpose; the individual thought is overruled by one big autocratic state. ... It is essential to the theme that it be placed in the future because of the advancement in technology and science. ...

• Word Count: 1534
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Summary The novel is set in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford). The world is ruled by World Controllers who ensure the stability of society. To do so, a caste system has been created, reaching from intelligent Alpha-Pluses to dwarfed and stupid Epsilons. A drug called soma ensures that no one ever feels pain or remains unhappy, and it is used by members of every caste. ...

• Word Count: 2125
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

His intentions are to warn us against scientific utopianism. ... Although this world is portrayed as a painless, warless and socially maintainable, Huxley subverts the central issues of his time, from the benefits of technological advancement to the over exploitation of technology. ...

• Word Count: 1418
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School