Science fiction or real life?
13 September 2012
Aldous Huxley envisaged a world where people are bred to perform certain roles. Could this come true?
In his 1932 dystopian sci-fi novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley predicted a world where everyone’s life choices were predetermined from birth.
In his nightmare vision of the future, babies are produced in vats and engineered to perform roles allocated to their predetermined social groups. Those in the Alpha group are destined to become leaders. Then there are...