The Earth In Huxley's Brave New World

Technology is one of the few foundations that the world is built on. Even in the early 1900s, the spectacular advancements made around the world aided the result that it is today. Aldous Leonard Huxley was a part of a family famous for their stupendous accomplishments in the fields of science and literature. In the 1930s, Huxley wrote Brave New World, a stunningly revolutionary novel that depicts the progress of extreme rapid growth of technology, which creates a quite radical culture when compared to now. In such a world, just as technology is used for practically everything, it is also used to control its society. The story takes place in a dystopian future after the Nine Years War, in the year 2450 A.F., which Huxley refers to mean, “After Ford”, 632 years after the famous Henry Ford changed the industrial world with the model T car. In a society ruled by ten world Controllers, getting …show more content…
However, his fictional but possibly accurate depiction of the far future seems grim in the eyes of modern citizens today. The Earth in Brave New World was only the way it was because of the Nine Years War, a devastating biochemical conflict that caused millions of casualties. This required humans to restart with a clean slate. Since at that time human civilization was already rapidly progressing mechanically, it should not have been hard to rebuild the knowledge that they already acquired through centuries of learning. The publishing of Huxley’s novel Brave New World is a magnificent take on human civilization’s future with the use of technological advancements. In a society so precocious and cutting-edge, more control is needed to especially avoid the unfortunate fate already faced before the World State was erected. In the present society people reside in now, one can only assume that civilization’s future will be destined entirely on the use of