use of Controlling Technology in 1984 and Brave New World
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"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity". Albert Einstein
For the past century, our society has exceeded and accomplished the un-imaginable. We have been thrown full speed into a rapidly changing technological revolution. The greatest minds have foreseen the damaging effects that technology can have on our society. Albert Einstein, a man who our society greatly acknowledges and honors, told of the dangers technology can hold. He prophesized his knowledge even before our society turned onto the track of our "information super-highway." Two other men- Aldous Huxley and George Orwell- also publicly gave their views on what the future may hold. Although they went different directions in predicting the future, they share one major concept--control through the use of technology.
Two major contrasting themes stand out when examining these two novels. In Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, the society's vast technological advances attempted to keep the citizens happily ignorant...