Brave New World Technological Advancements

In the novel the Brave New World by Aldous Huxley a society introduced in the 1930s where it is ran by technology and futuristic advancements that was unbelievably rare to be thought of for its time period. An example of a technological advancement in the novel was the mass production of identical offspring. Bokanovsky’s Process was the well-known process of human cloning that was applied to fertilized human eggs causing them to split into identical genetic copies of the original (Huxley). In today’s society there are technological/scientific qualifications to give us the power to copy human embryos, although it is “unethical and inappropriate and is specifically prohibited in many jurisdictions,” (BioCentre). “Community, identity, stability”, the motto of the
Society will never be able to forbid religion in any country, they may alter the types of religion they allow in their country, but it will always be there. Religious beliefs in the novel are sadly shunned by the new ways. Instead of church services the public has what is called a Solidary Service, where people all gather and sing together and take their prescription drug, soma. The purpose of these services give the community the ability to all come together and be together in unison, as how one would feel in a church. Growing up in the Brave New World the most important lessons learned was to love who you are, and not to want to be someone else. Sleep teaching was a technique to help ensure children would learn to love their social caste. Repeated lines over and over into the ears of sleeping children was the most effective way the society made sure pure equilibrium was met. Early life in America was built on the church, school, and family. Had this unified teaching continued to today, we would not have the type of society that we see going on in our world