The document discusses technology's role in society through comparisons between Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and the real world. In Brave New World, technology is used to manipulate and control humans to maintain social stability, with embryos conditioned and people brainwashed. However, excessive technological development could destroy human dignity and individuality. While technology may build an ideal society in Brave New World, in reality it risks tragedy if it undermines human values and freedom.

1. World State
vs.
Real World
Michael Cho, Stella Koo, Jennifer Suh

2. What is the role of
technology in daily life?

3. Contemporary society

4. “Technology had given us ease & leisure reducing
human efforts and increasing the quality & quantity
having high mechanical advantages it has become
need of the industrialist to cope up with the rest of the
world's markets we have actually become so much
dependent this technology that we cant even think to
live without technology.Technology provides us with
safety security ease of access speedy
transportation emails and every possible thing,the saying
that necessity is the mother of invention is right and
excellence in that invention is by technology.” (By
Muhammad Hamza Shahid)

5. Despite social issues surrounding the idea of computers
replacing humans, many people would agree that if a job
is taken over by a machine that is incapable of
independent thought, the job is not suitable for a
human being who have the ability to do so. Technology
helps eradicate useless jobs and decreases
labor costs, but it also creates new jobs.Also,
technology is used to enhance human beings
physically and intellectually. (By http://
www.bookrags.com/essay-2005/6/1/0125/75136)

6. World
State

7. “The return to civilization
was for her the return to
soma... Soma played none of
these unpleasant tricks
(Chapter 11/ pg.154)

8. “Stability. No civilization without social
stability. The primal and the ultimate need.
Stability. Hence all this” (Chapter 3/pg 42)

9. “My good boy! Can’t you see? Bokanovsky’s process is one of the
major instruments of social stability” (Chapter 1/
pg.7)

10. To what extent can Science/Technology
manipulate a human?

11. “Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo
below par”
(p.14)

12. “They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’
hatred of books and flowers. Reflexes unalterably conditioned” (p.22)

13. “[Eugenics] combined elements of social Darwinism with the
Mendelian theory of heredity. Its advocates pushed for
perfecting the human ‘gene pool’ by influencing the
reproductive process”

14. “Some people feel that the human genome issue will lead
to a choice in the creation of children. Ultimately, people
may be able to choose the sex, height, intelligence or major
characteristics of their child before he or she is
born.” (Lanae)

15. Comparison
would u give all this up
for that?
life is carefree
would life like that too
worthy?
easy?
would u accept it or not?
Is it

16. Bibliography
• http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=book
%20burning&order=9&offset=24#/d2d74p3
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• http://www.commondreams.org/views/072100-106.htm
• http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Technology/pages/Court-
case-shows-and-Google-and-Microsoft-may-have-collaborated-with-Al-
Qaeda-Scrape-TV-The-World-on-your-side.html
• http://www.bukisa.com/articles/14955_the-controversial-human-
genome-project
• http://cc.oulu.fi/~yseppa/pages/page1_1.html
• http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/micheldavid/david.html

17. to what extend is technology a distraction
from real life?

18. is human experimentation acceptable

19. human experimentation
“produce” babies with technology
brainwashed
“... the soft insinuating, indefatigable voice was saying, ‘I’m really awfully glad I’m
a Beta, because...” (28)

20. world state vs. society
✤ “conditioning” = favorable society
“Community, Identity, Stability” (1)

21. technology
world state vs. society
technology builds the Utopian society
OR
disaster

22. Excessive development of technology will bring tragedy, not a Utopian
society.
IT destroys human dignity.

23. citation
"BRAVE NEW WORLD ? A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering." Aldous Huxley :
Brave New World. 1998. Web. 29 May 2011. <http://www.huxley.net/>.
Gehlhaus, Ricky. "Brave New World: The Cost of Stability." Somaweb.org. Mar.
2000. Web. 29 May 2011. <http://somaweb.org/w/sub/
BNW_CostOfStability.html>.
"Character Roles in Brave New World." Shmoop. Web. 29 May 2011. <http://
www.shmoop.com/brave-new-world/protagonist-antagonist.html>.