Instead of six centuries into the future, he predicted that the completely organized society of the novel, the loss of free will, and the love of servitude were "....coming all right, but not in my time, not even in the time of my grandchildren" (Huxley 1). ... Huxley's abilities to predict the fate of civilization which he did in Brave New World Revisited (Green vi). ... In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus in his Essay on the Principle of Population predicted that the number of the human species would increase in the ratio of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 etc. ; and subsistence of ...

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An increasing number of researchers, scientists and practitioners are questioning the use of animals in research on ethical, moral, socio-political and scientific grounds. Use of animal research data to affect change in their patients is rarely used by clinical psychologists. This is certainly a pub...

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Forster predicts the terrible consequences of technology. ... The future of communication has been predicted accurately by the author, people tend to prefer the virtual form of communication any day rather than the physical, which seems to be too much work to many. ... The means of communication was invented by us to bring people who are separated by great distances together, but Forster predicted that in the future we would simply stay at home all the time and use the new advance in technology to communicate with others. ...

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Genetics and physiology however, cannot fully predict human behavior. ... Psychology identifies and isolates the unquantifiable mental x-factors that characterize human beings, and hopes to explain or even predict the flow of human thought. ...

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Raymond Kurzweil also believes immortality to be possible through advances in biotechnology, as he has accurately predicted the enormous advancements in modern day technology and predicts that biotechnology will be one of the major components in achieving this. ...

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To make a decision one needs to predict the consequences of this decision to evaluate if it is right or wrong. Predicting how one or another process is going to develop or is going to be developed means creating strategies. ...

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The 2030 Water Resources Group predicts that, if the population continues to grow as it has been, by the year 2030 the human demand for water will be 40 percent greater than the amount of water that we have reliable access to (Curry 5). ... In 2008, P.E Hodgson predicted that the world's oil production would peak in ten years, and then begin to decline ("Fossil Fuel"). ...

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The emphasis is put on the circumstances that affect human behaviour, in order to predict our reaction. ... The idea of this existence of something similar between generations brings in a thought that there is something in common for all the human beings, and therefore some classification can be created to analyse and predict our behaviour. ...

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The merit which made it a classic book is its astonishing ability to predict. ... Shelley predicts a dangerous circumstance through women's sensitivity and acuteness, which scientism, which means too much reliance on science to transform the human interests and environment, enables humans to boundlessly idolize it, becoming indefeasible. ...

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In past generations, the challenge of finding a mate was different. Men and women wanted a partner who could fulfill their basic needs for security and survival. Women looked for a strong man who would be a good provider; men searched for a nurturing woman to make a home. This is the classical vi...

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Hollywood is the place where imagination comes to life, even if it will never be possible or quite frankly, against the law. Human cloning is good example of what is seen in movies. As people dwelled on the thought, especially after Dolly the sheep was born, it has become a realistic issue that is s...

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Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late nineteenth century who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. He believed in life, creativity, health, and above all, the realities of the world in which we live in. Friedrich Nietzsche challenged all ideas that...

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Amazingly, almost a hundred years ago, Forster had an uncanny ability to predict exactly how technology would develop and how it would change not only our way of looking at it but more importantly how it changes our lives. ...

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 Science is moving at such a rapid speed these days, between cloning, gene therapy, miracle drugs, exotic therapies, etc. One of the most significant breakthroughs came in November 1998, when two separate researchers successfully isolated stem cells from human embryos and aborted fetuse...

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The EPA still conducts the Lethal Dose 50 (LD50) test - recording how much chemical kills 50% of the animals in a test group - even though a majority of scientists agree that the test is a lousy predictor of human risk. ...

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Cloning Imagine the world where everything was doubled, or tripled. There's a newly developed technology that can allow doctors and scientists to duplicate living organisms. This development in technology is known as cloning, and it has forever changed the views of life. Cloning can serve as the...

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Genetic Engineering Imagine a world where people didn't have to donate organs anymore or if vegetables were so big and the plant produced so much that many farms wouldn't need to be utilized anymore. Genetic engineering could change the world, as we currently know it. Technologies already exist...

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In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his c...

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Hansen predicts that after our current period of peak in oil production, we will quickly find ourselves short of the fossil fuels necessary for modern agriculture's and the sustainability of current population. ...

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Animal experimentation is a waste of time, money and resources. Each year, millions of animals are tortured, mutilated, and infected with painful diseases in research laboratories until they die. This research method has been commonly used since the nineteenth century (Animal Testing Timeline), but ...

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In life, there are many different stages showing the growth process of an individual. However, the two most important stages of life are the beginning of a newborn and death. Death is a common and controversial topic that has put quite a lot of people into anxiety. There are many reasons to the endl...

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In many cases people are attracted to those of a nature similar to themselves, yet in others complete opposites in personality and form pair up, so it becomes impossible to predict, with great alacrity, who would be attracted to whom. ...

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Bystander Apathy As you wait to cross the street, a blind man is standing in front of you. Without warning, he begins to cross the street even though the light has not changed in his favor. He seems to be in no danger until you see a car about a half mile away speeding towards him. Totally u...

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Biotechnology is used every day to change life, as we know it. In fact, people do not realize that early humans used biotechnology 10,000 years ago. Early humans were producing beer, wine, bread, and yogurt by means of fermentation. Biotechnology is any technique that uses organisms or their product...

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