“COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY”: this is the motto of the World State in the science fiction novel “Brave New World” written by Aldous Leonard Huxley in 1932. Huxley predicts the world future ironically, and I assume everyone hopes his prediction doesn't come true. Fortunately, Huxley's new world is only an imaginary world; no one knows whether Huxley's new world will become reality or not. However, technology improves rapidly and scares people because their world is gradually approaching Huxley's new world. So, my question is, “Could the new world become a reality?” The answer is “yes”. Recent research shows the success of cloning and preventing aging in animal experiments, implying that the technology we now have can actualize some parts of Huxley's new world in the non-human animal kingdom. Thus, technology could actualize Huxley's new world on a human level as well. Furthermore, the current new world may be even more extreme due to immortality, and therefore, future scientists and engineers are required to make appropriate choices to prevent an extremely totalitarian community. To begin with, cloning is a process that produces a series containing the same genetic set, and Huxley's Brave New World depicts a human cloning society. Generally, people think of cloning as a process that duplicates something that already exists. A scientific article defines the word cloning as “[a process that produces] an individual grown from a single somatic cell of its parent and generically identical to it” (Fackelmann 92). However, this definition only defines somatic cell cloning, which is one of the types of cloning. DNA cloning, cell cloning, and generic cloning are examples of the other type......middle of paper......1997): 349-352. JSTOR. Network. November 19, 2013.Fackelmann, Kathy. "Human embryo cloning". Society for Science and the Public (1994): 92-93. JSTOR.Web. December 8, 2013.Goldman, Bruce. “Scientists discover blood factors that appear to cause aging in the brains of mice.”Stanford School of Medicine. Np, 31 August 2011. Web. 11 December 2013 “History of cloning”. Harvard Medical School. Np, nd Web. 10 December 2013.Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1950. Print. "Scientists hope to clone extinct species." CNN. Cable News Network, November 4, 2008. Web. November 20, 2013. Woiak, Joanne. “Designing a New World: Eugenics, Politics, and Fiction.” The PublicHistorian (2007): 105-129. JSTOR. Network. December 10, 2013. "Young blood revives aging muscles, according to Stanford researchers." Stanford School of Medicine. Np,16 February 2005Web. December 11th. 2013.
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