Essay Archive - Technology in A Brave New World
Technology in A Brave New World
Technology is defined as using the entire body of science, methods, and
materials to achieve an end. Technology, or techne, is so preoccupied with
weather it can, it never considers if it should. In "Of Techne and Episteme," a
article on technology and humanities, the author Eddy warns us that a society
without epistemological thinking would lead to a society of "skilled
barbarians." This is the topic of the novel Brave New World in which Aldous
Huxley portrays a future world where babies are manufactured on an assembly line
and p....
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