Added on 08/05/07
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is set in a technology-rich future where test-tube babies and subconscious learning dominate people�s lives. At first, the reader is introduced to the method and capabilities of genetic engineering, where scientists...
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is set in a technology-rich future where test-tube babies and subconscious learning dominate people�s lives. At first, the reader is introduced to the method and capabilities of genetic engineering, where scientists are able to design babies, changing their attributes (intelligence, physical strength, etc) in order to tailor a person to a specific job. Later on, we find out about subconscious learning and the effects and uses it has on the populace. Apparently this has all been going on for generations, and so the majority of people have been bio-engineered and brainwashed. We soon find another side of the population, people who have been left out of the technological world, people who live as themselves and with freedom. When a man decides to take a holiday there (a type of quarantined park for the savage humans), he meets one of them and manages to sneak him back to the city. I enjoyed this novel as it involves many themes and issues including... See less 
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