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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