Brave New World

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the foundation of the "Brave New World" that Huxley urges us to avoid. In Brave New World, Huxley's forewarning of the "manufacturing" of humans reveals the devastating results that our misuse of advancing technology can bring upon mankind. In Brave New World, Huxley prophetically predicts the mass-production of humans. Huxley's prediction begins with the first chapter, where the Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center gives a tour to prospective employees. The Director explains to them the Bokanovsky Process. In the Bokanovsky's Process, "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."1 Before, one egg resulted in one human, but now ninety-six twins are being produced from one egg. The Director also explains that with Podsnap's Technique, a facilitated ripening process, "you get an average of nearly eleven thousand brothers and sisters ...