Prenatal Genetic Engineering and the Scientific Caste System

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The Society of Brave New World was organized into a scientific caste system. Prenatal genetic engineering produced children destined to belong to one of five castes. Postnatal genetic engineering in the technological augmentation of the brain and body is in its initial stages. We are at the beginning of a fateful era in which man may merge with machine, says Huxley.

In his 1958 book Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley wrote the following: “If the first half of the twentieth century was the era of the technical engineers, the second half may well be the era of the social engineers — and the twenty-first century, I suppose, will be the era of World Controllers, the scientific […]

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