Technology in A Brave New World

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Technology in A Brave New World

Technology is defined as using the entire body of science, methods, and

materials to achieve an end. Technology, or techne, is so preoccupied with

weather it can, it never considers if it should. In "Of Techne and Episteme," a

article on technology and humanities, the author Eddy warns us that a society

without epistemological thinking would lead to a society of "skilled

barbarians." This is the topic of the novel Brave New World in which Aldous

Huxley portrays a future world where babies are manufactured on an assembly line

and put into a social class while they are still embryos in a test tube. As

children they are engineered to be content with their rank in this world where

love, viviparous reproduction, and knowledge of anything beyond your job serves

no purpose. A look at Brave New World supports Eddy's beliefs on the importance

of humanities in society because of unethical genetic experimentation and the

character's lack of individuality.

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