Genetic Engineering In Brave New World

When people dream of their future child they always want them to be smart, athletic, and successful. In reality this isn’t true and never will be, or can it? Genetic engineering is the doorway to picking and choosing what traits a child has, but it may come at a cost that's more than just money. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley explores the idea of a futuristic city where children are being made identically in factories, then sent out and taught the same exact values as their peers. Along with Brave New World, an article from TheWeek called “Editing the Human Race” analyzes the new gene-editing technique called CRISPR. Genetic engineering can improve humans, but the ideas in Brave New World might prove that CRISPR and genetic engineering should be left untouched. Brave New World takes advantage of genetic engineering and makes it into an evil process that would be unthinkable in our day and age. “One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult.”(12). This book goes through the ins and outs of how they produce, teach, and mold the genetically

“Editing the Human Race” states that “...they have only scratched the surface…” so it is probably best to keep doing smaller research. Brave New World is really a smack in the face and a huge reality check for genetic engineering. People only really think about the challenges of getting it to work when really we should think about what happens if it does work? Brave New World is an eye opener to people who haven’t thought about the application of genetic engineering. Both sources compliment each other in a very interesting way, which shows both sides of genetic