What Is The Difference Between Oryx And Crake

Technology, it’s one of the many driving forces of society. Throughout history, it has yielded numerous benefits: consolidating and increasing food supply, creating and providing material goods, and prolonging life. But, it doesn’t happen all at once. These advancements take time, happening in waves or booms, an emergence of a radical, life-altering idea, discovery that spreads (Kranzberg p547). However, these booms would generally take a long time to spread. Natural barriers like wide rivers, oceans, mountains, even deserts would retard technology’s spread. This was until technology was advanced enough that it allowed for globalization. Globalization enabled cultural diffusion, the spread of social activities. Because it became easier to communicate
This world is the result of genetic modification and climate change. Snowman the survivor tells of his past describing a world that placed a high precedent on technology and scientific developments. The world is separated by type of job, where science based jobs are, naturally, regarded as better. The living conditions are also separated into two: the Compounds and the Pleeblands. The Compounds are areas where the higher class of people live, the elite while the Pleeblands are where everyone else lives. These Compounds are self-sustaining; they contain schools and shopping centres, removing the need to leave. And those who live in the Compounds try not to associate with those in the
In this world the Tyrell Corporation created artificial creatures, androids, that are essentially identical to humans. These androids are called ‘Replicants’. Replicants were created to do jobs that were considered hazardous or unsavory. And because of their purpose, they rose up against corporation and were banned from earth and limited to ‘Off-world Colonies’. These ‘Off-world Colonies’ are also advertised to the public with promises of financial and personal incentives, where only those who fit the health qualifications can travel. The colonies run a stark difference from the earth, though; they are clean with a fresh environment and decent climate, while earth is portrayed as industrialized, bleak, and overpopulated with the residing population on earth only shown as Eastern Asian. But above all, the Tyrell Company resides both physically and figuratively in a pyramid that looks down on the city that seemingly controls