Beta Express

Many of Huxley's predictions for the future have come true or, at least, seem likely to in the near
future. Indeed the very term 'Brave New World'  is now used to describe any scientific development that
threatens to change society ( just try typing 'Brave New World Science' into Google and see what comes up).

Of course many of the scientific techniques described in the novel are now hopelessly outdated. It is now
impossible to imagine scientists ladling chemicals into jars filled with embryos and shaking them up and down to
ensure the future citizen won't get motion sickness. But then Huxley was writing 21 years before the discovery of
DNA  were he alive to revise the book now no doubt the Central Hatchery would be awash with stem cell techniques
and germ cell manipulation and the Bokanovsky process replaced with cloning.

With this in mind we decided to base our post show workshop on a contemporary scientific issue 'designer
babies'. You can access the workshop notes and results here.

Other Huxley/Bio-ethics links can be found here.

Delta Mirror

Who’s Who (in order of appearance)

The Centre Director (Tommy)
The Director is in charge of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, a vast bio-medical complex which
produces babies of various social castes and conditions them for their state allotted social role. An Alpha Double Plus,
the Director is a highly intelligent servant of the state. Prone to fits of self-importance and pomposity he takes
particular exception to the non-conformist Bernard Marx.

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