Society in the Brave New World has completely accepted technology advancements and now will continue to live a happy and carefree life for many millennium. Technology has and will support the human race as we continue to expand our knowledge on endless subjects and topics. Hopefully technology will help us hold peace with one another as it has done for many years before. in conclusion to all my sarcastic Brave New World Posts, Technology can be beneficial to society, but can also be very dangerous in areas sch as drugs and the fact that they can grow infants in Brave New World. Overall i believe that Technology is beneficial to a growing society and i hope that throughout my lifetime i get to witness some magical technological advances. Thank You, and goodnight.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Brave New World Chapters:17-18 " Success"
‘Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness’ ” (Huxley 234).
Brave New World Chapters: 15-16 "Holographic food"
“ ‘We could synthesize every morsel of food, if we wanted to. But we don’t. We prefer to keep a third of the population on the land’ ” (Huxley 224).
Technology has advanced so much in Brave New World that they can synthesize healthy food to feed the people. Starvation will never be a problem ever again. With the help of technology, the human race can now support themselves without the nutrients mother nature gave us to begin with. We have come so far that we no longer need any support. It is as if the human race had just turned 18 and is moving out of the household to live independently. The people of the Brave New World are now free from any of mother natures constraints. Hopefully the limits on technology have been removed and the mere aspect of acquiring more knowledge will drive the people of the Brave New World to discover more to provided a greater advancement in technology.
Technology has advanced so much in Brave New World that they can synthesize healthy food to feed the people. Starvation will never be a problem ever again. With the help of technology, the human race can now support themselves without the nutrients mother nature gave us to begin with. We have come so far that we no longer need any support. It is as if the human race had just turned 18 and is moving out of the household to live independently. The people of the Brave New World are now free from any of mother natures constraints. Hopefully the limits on technology have been removed and the mere aspect of acquiring more knowledge will drive the people of the Brave New World to discover more to provided a greater advancement in technology.
Brave New World Chapters: 13-14 " Mr. Foster, a great man who died in peace"
"It was a large room bright with sunshine and yellow paint, and containing twenty beds, all occupied. Linda was dying in company—in company and with all the modern conveniences. The air was continuously alive with gay synthetic melodies. At the foot of every bed, confronting its moribund occupant, was a television box. Television was left on, a running tap, from morning till night. Every quarter of an hour the prevailing perfume of the room was automatically changed. 'We try,' explained the nurse, who had taken charge of the Savage at the door, 'we try to create a thoroughly pleasant atmosphere here—something between a first-class hotel and a feely-palace, if you take my meaning.'" (Huxley, 198)
Technology provides comfort to those who need it most. Hospice in the Brave New World provides a comfortable, peaceful, and emotional place to pass away your final days.. The hospice in this world helps the dying to be comfortable and not be afraid of death. What we do today for those in Hospice is provide them with 'homey' items that help the ill to die in peace. Technology in the Brave New World allows us to provide certain smells and designs that comfort the brain. This is a great advancement and is beneficial to a society that relies on its citizens to be in a comfortable stable state of mind.
Technology provides comfort to those who need it most. Hospice in the Brave New World provides a comfortable, peaceful, and emotional place to pass away your final days.. The hospice in this world helps the dying to be comfortable and not be afraid of death. What we do today for those in Hospice is provide them with 'homey' items that help the ill to die in peace. Technology in the Brave New World allows us to provide certain smells and designs that comfort the brain. This is a great advancement and is beneficial to a society that relies on its citizens to be in a comfortable stable state of mind.
Brave New World Chapter: 12 "is it possible?"
"...the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge"(Huxley 177).
The purpose of technological advancement is not to make us happier or to make life easier. The purpose is for us to expand what it means to be human. We should constantly seek to raise the bar higher, not to squeamishly keep the status level. Is there a ceiling? An end after which we can no longer progress? If such a thing exists, it would be our duty to find it and reach it. Technology is meant to enhance humanities knowledge and understandings of the world we live in. Understanding the full potential of our surroundings is something that technology is meant to uncover.
The purpose of technological advancement is not to make us happier or to make life easier. The purpose is for us to expand what it means to be human. We should constantly seek to raise the bar higher, not to squeamishly keep the status level. Is there a ceiling? An end after which we can no longer progress? If such a thing exists, it would be our duty to find it and reach it. Technology is meant to enhance humanities knowledge and understandings of the world we live in. Understanding the full potential of our surroundings is something that technology is meant to uncover.
Brave New World Chapter: 11 "make me young again please"
"If we could rejuvenate, of course it would be different. But we can't." (Huxley 154)
Aging, for some, is a terrifying idea. Some women nowadays are scared to become old and wrinkly. quiet frankly, these people are afraid of becoming what i like to call a 'Veggie' , a useless human being that has no benefit to society, but just sits there and requires food and other resources. If you think about it, the idea of living young until the end of your days is pretty intriguing, imagine if we could have used this technology to keep the great minds of our century alive and coming up with new ideas. Technology is very useful to keep the Alphas young and in their prime in the Brave New World. We do not want our supreme caste to look like a lower caste now would we?
Aging, for some, is a terrifying idea. Some women nowadays are scared to become old and wrinkly. quiet frankly, these people are afraid of becoming what i like to call a 'Veggie' , a useless human being that has no benefit to society, but just sits there and requires food and other resources. If you think about it, the idea of living young until the end of your days is pretty intriguing, imagine if we could have used this technology to keep the great minds of our century alive and coming up with new ideas. Technology is very useful to keep the Alphas young and in their prime in the Brave New World. We do not want our supreme caste to look like a lower caste now would we?
Brave New World Chapters: 9-10 "Grow Me Another"
“From eighteen hundred bottles eighteen hundred carefully labeled infants were simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretion” (Huxley 147).
Technological advancements have benefited society greatly by maximizing the efficiency at which something is done. 1800 infants are drinking their 'juice' all at the same time, maximizing the time needed to produce one infant. Also, the labels on the infants jar determines their job in the future. This also helps efficiency and society greatly because it allows only a certain number of infants to be produced for a certain job. No more excess of infants for a job! These specialized people will be infinitely better than random birthed babies for the stability and sustainability society needs. Technology has never been greater.
Technological advancements have benefited society greatly by maximizing the efficiency at which something is done. 1800 infants are drinking their 'juice' all at the same time, maximizing the time needed to produce one infant. Also, the labels on the infants jar determines their job in the future. This also helps efficiency and society greatly because it allows only a certain number of infants to be produced for a certain job. No more excess of infants for a job! These specialized people will be infinitely better than random birthed babies for the stability and sustainability society needs. Technology has never been greater.
Brave New World Chapter: 8 "Magic!"
"How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is!" (Huxley 139)
Technology has an amazing effect on people. If you are far enough ahead of someone else in technological advancement, the simple day to day advances you take for granted can be magic for someone else.John is entranced by the idea of accompanying Bernard to the Brave New World. He can not wait to see all the new technological advances. Technology enhances life as we know it and it becomes a necessity. New Technological advances would only make our daily lives that much more impressive. As we develop more and more luxuries, other people will look up to us and want the same thing, requiring them to become more technologically advanced. This would help create smarter societies throughout the whole world.
Technology has an amazing effect on people. If you are far enough ahead of someone else in technological advancement, the simple day to day advances you take for granted can be magic for someone else.John is entranced by the idea of accompanying Bernard to the Brave New World. He can not wait to see all the new technological advances. Technology enhances life as we know it and it becomes a necessity. New Technological advances would only make our daily lives that much more impressive. As we develop more and more luxuries, other people will look up to us and want the same thing, requiring them to become more technologically advanced. This would help create smarter societies throughout the whole world.
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