On the other hand, many people throughout the world believe that technology will harm society by changing the current societal values. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, explores this idea by displaying potential future issues. The book opens up in a lab where children are made: “And this’ said the director ‘is the Fertilizing Room.’ Bent over the instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration” (Huxley 4). Inside of this “hatchery,” babies are made, not born. Humans in Brave New World control nothing but themselves leaving government lead facilities like hatcheries …show more content…
One character, John the Savage, realizes this in disgust, but he also realizes that the pleasure in their world derives solely from sex and a soothing drug called “soma.” All of these processes go unnoticed in their society but would be detrimental to what humans believe in today. Sex is not categorized as something to pass time and drugs should not fall under the same category. Similar novels present the same issues with society. George Orwell’s 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 explore the same concept but with different perspectives. All three share the common characteristic of extremely advanced technology that has been abused by political leaders. Leon Kass expands on his view saying, “Finally, and perhaps most troubling, our views of the meaning of our humanity have been so transformed by the scientific- technological approach to the world that we are in danger of forgetting what we have to lose” (3). Kass argues that humans, even in the present, do not have the power to reset what has previously occurred. Kass notes in his dissertation that environmental threats like global warming result directly from