HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD

Huxley had a really interesting and even scary vision for the future of our world in his book Brave New World. However, I don't believe our society has come to such a point or ever really will come to such a point as being considered of "Brave New World" status creepy. In this interview he made good points about the speed of technology and how it changes us, how drugs may be recreational with effects that may be minimal, and even drew some parallels between his story and real world events. I just truly believed he underestimated how we would evolve as a people. We don't have to let technology and what we can do with it rule us, people (students, teachers, parents, doctors, politicians) have created a way to use it as a tool for education, entertainment and easy access (sometimes completely useless) information. Technology didn't advance without us and it didn't make a window to some sort of tyrannical nightmarish government. The power of technology brought power to the people and keeps raising the ceiling on what we as a whole or as individuals can accomplish. Huxley really couldn't have predicted the way in which people would take advantage of these opportunities. In a sense we are like the BNW in that we are constantly seeking improvement and ways to eliminate problems, however, as of now I'd like to believe that our minds are still very much our own.