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    Brave New World is a dystopian novel set up in a futuristic utopia where everyone is made to be happy, and all of the problems of the ‘old world’ have been almost completely erased from human life. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley accurately predicts the rise of hookup culture and the potential for babies to be grown out of the womb. However, his predictions of a widely accepted caste system amongst all humans has yet to rise up to this point in history. Today’s society increasingly participates

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    readers can remember. As advancement in technology continues, the fear of it taking over everyday life has gone from a distant absurd idea in novels to a present reality. Current technology can be applied in almost everything from medical devices to kitchen appliances. For example, the refrigerators that can send out text messages when one is low on milk or any other grocery. In Aldous Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, it closely depicts the influence technology plays on a human's role in society. In

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    There are many themes in brave new world one of them being Government control through technology. Throughout the novel the theme of the use of technology to control society is present. Soma being one of these examples, Soma is a drug created by the DHC to control the emotions of the people below them. It creates a happy state of mind where the people don't question anything and will constantly be happy: “Now, you swallow two or three half gramme tablets and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous

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    Another example of the negative side of advanced technology being depicted by Huxley in Brave New World is in how the World State replaces real emotion and individuality with conditioning and collectiveness. While the assembly line becomes a major way to create human beings, machines and objects replace human emotions, which leads to consumerism and individuality falling to the wayside. The World State is a society in which economics take precedence over emotion. Everyone is needed for their role

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    NEW TECHNOLOGY IN A NEW WORLD!! INVEST TODAY!!! In today’s era technology, has begun to take over. Mankind has taken the extra step to turn those once fictional movies into reality. There were once horror movies of cars driving themselves, fully functioning robots, hover boards, and many more inventions that only people could dream about. Over the past few years’ companies have been making a drastic breakthrough to make life easier and more enjoyable. One of the companies that have invested lots

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    The Impact of new social media technologies on young people OBSTRACT How the new social media technologies’ impacting on young people in today’s society? The study will examine the positive and negative impact of new media technologies on young people. It will explores on how new media technologies such as computer games, video games, face book, television, twitter, mobile phones, you tube, internet, television, whatsApp, Viber, Snap chat, and other modern technology are playing major role on

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    to explore and detect the issues surrounding the use of Information systems. The development of new and more efficient Information systems keeps on growing as organizations goal to utilize and upgrade the tools to increase their level and quality of production or output. IT systems plays an important role in most organizations that operate on a worldwide scale. In the modern day, people value technology that make work easier given that these devices can address their needs, for example, aspects that

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    there's soma” (Huxley, 2005, p. 198). Technology has slowly gained control over the lives of the citizens in Brave New World as they strive to achieve complete perfection. Their attempted utopian society has become blind to real emotions and life as they are sucked into soma and therefore becoming oblivious to their unhappiness. Nonetheless, they continue to take soma as an escape from thought and doubt that the new age of technology has given them. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley has portrayed

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    1. Introduction New technologies have affected every aspects of the world in the recent decades. IT, e-commerce have used in many industries to help their development; while internet has become a necessary for our everyday life. Most of the industries have set their new value propositions to adjust themselves to the new technologies. Without exception for tour operating industry, they are experiencing a big impact from those technologies and also responding to them and trying to develop in the

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    What are the roles of technologies in the society today? With all of the technologies available that today’s world possesses, it is undoubtable that technologies plays a big role on how the current society runs. Even though it provides positive effects to the society it also comes with negative effects. In the world of Brave New World and Gattaca, it displays the capabilities of how technologies can change a society in both the good way and the bad way. Technology plays an extensive amount of role

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