Monday, April 7, 2008

A Brave New World and Technocracy

Below is a link for an article published in TIME Magazine on Dec. 26, 1932 about Howard Scott, one of the founders of the Technocracy Movement. It provides a brief summary of the objectives and methods for reform proposed by the Technocrats.


The following link is for the complete text of JBS Haldane's book Daedalus, or Science and the Future, which influenced Huxley's novel Brave New World. Haldane, a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist, discusses the idea of human-controlled evolution, including directed mutation and ectogenesis, in this text. 


The final link is a video of Aldous Huxley discussing A Brave New World and 1984. In the video he explains how totalitarian regimes will be able to subjugate people through non-violent means in the future. 

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