The document discusses several topics related to technology and its impact on society. It begins by asking questions about the role of technology in daily life and its effects. It then discusses cloning and genetic engineering, citing concerns about reducing parenthood and manipulating human beings. The document also examines how contemporary society has aspects similar to the dystopian World State depicted in Brave New World. It raises questions about the acceptability of human experimentation and whether technology distracts from real life. Finally, it debates whether genetic information should factor into decisions around birth, employment, insurance and marriage. The document analyzes these issues through a mix of quotes and perspectives.

1. Technology
Christine Kim, Min Kyung Kim, Yaerin Song, Jake
Lee, Elliot Chung

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

3. “Making ninety-six human
being grow where only one
grew before. Progress.”

4. “Still yelling, the khaki babies were loaded
on to their dumb-waiters and wheeled out...”

5. Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a
perversion of the right relation between parents and
children.- Leon Kass

6. I am in favor of stem-cell
research. I am not in
favor of creating new
human embryos through
cloning.- Mitt Romney

7. How do the values
of the World State
compare with the
values of
contemporary
society?
To what degree has
contemporary
society become like
the World State?
Is this a
positive or
negative
development
? Why?

8. CITATIONS
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• Brave New World book.

9. To what extent can science
change / manipulate a human?

10. “Bloated, sagging, and among those
firm youthful bodies, those
a strange
undistorted faces,
and terrifying monster of
middle-agedness...” (Huxley 150).

11. "I’d rather be myself and nasty. Not
somebody else, however jolly" (Huxley 89).

12. “...men’s cosmetics are going mainstream:
some men are not even self-
conscious about using them” (NEWMAN).

13. "You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in
Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went
on vacation, there wouldn't be a person
left in town" (inguito)

14. Society v. World State
Society World State
Positive v. Negative

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www.flickr.com/photos/stevelukehanson/479992156/>.
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www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/5106055580/>.
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www.flickr.com/photos/myspaceonline/4059175185/>.
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famous-celebrities.html>.
Newman, Andrew Adam. "SKIN DEEP; Men's Cosmetics Becoming a Bull Market."The
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www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/fashion/02skin.html?pagewanted=2>.

16. Is human experimentation
acceptable?

17. “Books and loud noises, flowers and electric
shocks♮already in the infant mind these
couples were compromisingly linked; and
after two hundred repetitions...”(22).

18. "The slower but infinitely surer methods of
ectogenesis, neo-Pavlovian conditioning
and hypnopædia…"(50).

19. “Attention must be given to the ways an
experiment can be designed to maintain its
scientific validity, meet ethical
requirements...”(David Rutstein).

20. “It has the potential to threaten the sacred
family bonds at the very core of our ideals and
our society... to make our children objects rather
than cherished individuals.”(BILL CLINTON)

21. “We slow the progress of science
today for all sorts of ethical
reasons.”(Paul Nitze).

22. CITATIONS
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World,. New York: Harper & Bros.,
1946. Print.
Fukuyama, Francis. "Biotechnology: our slippery slope?." 20
June 2001: n. page. Web. <http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/
magazine/biotechnologyourslipperyslope/>.
Rumble, B.. "Experimenting on humans: A Christian
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23. to what extent is technology a
distraction from real life?

24. “progress is
lovely, isn’t
it?” (Huxley 100).

25. “it was decided to abolish the love of nature, at
any rate among the lower classes” (Huxley 23).

26. “Humans need to be surrounded by
human touch, faces, and voices”
(Sherry Turkle).

27. “Being on-call for work can blur the boundaries
between work and family life” (Lauren Lowry).

28. “”and do remember that a gramme is better
than a damn”” (huxley 55).

29. “bokanovsky’s process is one of the
most important” (huxley 7).

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31. Should genetic information be used for
making decisions about: birth, employment,
insurance, marriage, etc.?

32. “Alpha-conditioned man would go mad if he had to do Epsilon
Semi-Moron work—go mad, or start smashing things up.”(222)

33. “The optimum population,” said Mustapha Mond, “is modelled on the iceberg—eight-ninths below the water
line, one-ninth above.” (223)

34. Under Title II of GINA, it is illegal to discriminate against
employees or applicants because of genetic information.

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