Technology in A Brave New World Essay -- Brave New World

Technology in A Brave New World         Technology is defined as using the entire torso of science, methods, andmaterials to achieve an end.  Technology, or techne, is so preoccupied withweather it can, it never considers if it should.  In Of Techne and Episteme, aarticle on technology and humanities, the author Eddy warns us that a societywithout epistemological thinking would lead to a society of  skilledbarbarians.  This is the topic of the novel Brave New World in which AldousHuxley portrays a prospective world where babies are manufactured on an assembly lineand put into a social class while they are still embryos in a test tube.  Aschildren they are engineered to be content with their rank in this world wherelove, viviparous reproduction, and knowledge of anything beyond your job servesno purpose.  A flavour at Brave New World supports Eddys beliefs on the importanceof humanities in society because of unethical genetic experimentation and thecharacters lack of individuality. ...