BNW Ch 9-10: Order of Progress?

"Everyone was busy, everything in ordered motion." (Huxley 146)

Everything in the world state happens with great efficiency. Technology allows us to work together better, and become streamlined. Take for example Google Docs. This program by Google allows people all over the globe to collaborate on a single document. That is not all, however. It also stores the document on the internet, allowing it to be available anywhere, on computers and mobile devices. Now that we have this technology in our modern day civilization, projects that used to take weeks can be accomplished in days or hours. Through this advancement,we have bettered ourselves as human beings.

BNW Ch 8: Brave New World?

"How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is!" (Huxley 139)

Technology has an amazing effect on people. If you are far enough ahead of someone else in technological advancement, the things you take for granted may seem like magic to them. John is enraptured by the mere prospect of joining Bernard in his advanced civilization. Everything about Bernard and Lenina seems magical to John. This is but one of the numerous benefits technology confers to the people.

BNW Ch 7: Clothes make the woman?

"Yes, and civilized clothes. Because I thought I should never see a piece of real acetate silk again." (Huxley 119).

Linda does not live in the most favorable of conditions. She is depressed by the fact that she used to have all the technological wonders of the world state at her disposal, but now has to live the simple life of the Native Americans. As soon as she sees Lenina, she becomes hysterical. Just the sight of the clothing of her old home brings her to tears. If technology has that sort of power, there can be no doubt of the benefit it confers to the people. To make such retrogressive demotions as to go from helicopters to no bathrooms is brutal. We advance technology to solve the immediate problems at hand. Innovation is almost required to consider yourself a higher order creature. If humans didn't innovate, we would still be hunting deer with our bare hands. Instead of wasting precious time doing that, I'm able to sit here typing about the benefits of technology.

BNW Ch 6: Progress!

"Progress is lovely, isn't it?" (Huxley 100)

Bernard is quick to attack Lenina for her use of hypnopaedic phrases whenever she uses them. They make him angry because he believes most of them to be nothing more than rubbish distributed by the state to make them feel better. However, when Lenina says this phrase, Bernard just sighs and continues his conversation. For all that Bernard despises about the world state, he can't deny that this phrase carries truth. Since the beginning of time, humans have felt the need to move forward.  Even if the world state is abysmal, no one can deny that progress is lovely. If we didn't progress, what would be the point of achievement? We burn with the passion to climb higher, build bigger, and go farther. We should embrace this without even the need for hypnopaedia.

BNW Ch 5: We are the World?

"On their way up the chimney the gasses go through four separate treatments. P2O5 used to go right out of circulation every time they cremated someone. Now they recover over ninety-eight per cent of it." (Huxley 73)

Using advanced technology, we can assist the environment even when we die. Phosphorous that used to become smog and pollution from cremations and factories can be concentrated, extracted, and used for fertilizer. The fertilizer can be used to feed plants that humans will eventually eat, completing the phosphorous cycle. As the dominant species of planet earth, we have a responsibility to take care of the damage we cause. Our cities and metropolises destroy large quantities of land that plants used to occupy, so the least we could do is give back their phosphorous when we are done using it.

BNW Ch 4:Transportation Station?

"He started the engines and threw the helicopter screws into gear. the machine shot vertically into the air. Henry accelerated; the humming of the propeller shrilled from hornet to wasp, from wasp to mosquito; the speedometer showed that they were rising at the best part of two kilometres a minute." (Huxley 61)

In this chapter, we see technology that enhances the area of transportation. Rather than have all cars run on the ground floor, cars can now fly at various altitudes. With this technology, traffic can be managed in a whole new dimension. Instead of having to wait for a passing lane to move ahead of a slow vehicle, passing could be allowed under or over he slow vehicle. People would be able to get places faster, and save time, money, and the environment.

BNW Ch 3:Food, Glorious Food?

"Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." (Huxley 42)

Here, Huxley describes how we require guidance as a species, which can only happen with the help of technology. Mustapha Mond is giving a speech on how life has changed in Brave New World. He states how before a system had been put in place, humans experienced a predator-prey cycle. This relationship works as follows: As food supply increases, people to eat that food are born. However, this causes food to deplete, which in turn causes mass starvation. The result is excess food, which raises the population, restarting the cycle. To prevent this mass extinction cycle, a system was established in which population is held constant. By using technology, we can hold the population at carrying capacity, preventing starvation. Over population is a real problem, but we can tackle it with the help of technology.

BTW Ch 2: Pavlovian Conditioning?

"What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder" (Huxley 22)

Humans have been slaves to nature from our conception. We always feared natural disasters and been unable to prevent genetic diseases. However, we are approaching the age where we can cast off our chains. We call ourselves the masters of our planet, but we still can't control it. Using the power of modern science, we can become the people we claim to be: the dominant species of planet earth. What we join will not be put asunder.

BTW Ch 1: Dominant genes?

"'To improve their sense of balance,' Mr. Foster explained. 'Doing repairs on the outside of a rocket in mid-air is ticklish job'" (Huxley 17)

Every child is born different. Some are optimists, some are pessimists. Some excel at math, while others are masters of language. With the technology of genetic modification, this random chance becomes certain. We could make someone excel at math or language. Progress would no longer be restricted by waiting around for an Einstein or Galileo, we could build legends like these from the DNA up. With the proper application of science, heroes are not born, they are grown. Political correctness would not be relevant anymore, because skin color, height, and other phenotypes would be decided purely based on what was most efficient for their environment. Genetic diseases could be rooted out at the source by gene therapy, and furthermore resistance to other diseases could be added. Humans have faced the stagnation of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium for too long. It is time we used our knowledge to take evolution into our own hands.