In Class Video

I thought that the video we watched in class on Thursday was very interesting. I thought that the fact that people are getting microchips implanted into their arms and into their children so they can track them and use the microchips and identification for security is crazy. I am not sure what side I see on this matter because it could be both good and bad. For example, I am 18 and I would not want my parents to be able to just go on the computer and find out exactly where I am. There is no privacy in that. Also, I am somewhat scared of this technological advancement because is it getting to be too much? However on the other side, it could help to locate missing children and keep fraud to a minimum since all of your information is in your arm and not your wallet.

Brave New World Savages, Who is it?

In Brave New World, they call the people who read books and have parents and religion, savages. But who really are the savages? The ones who have they're social class handed to them on a platter? Or is it the ones who work for what they want and have individual thought? In my opinion, its the ones who were born in petri dishes. They don't know what they believe or think. All they know is what they were told to know. They are like little robots doing and saying what the government tells them to. On the other hand, the 'savages' have minds of their own, they earn their place in society. These are the ones who should be on the top of the government, they know what is right and what is wrong. They don't run away from their thoughts or things that they don't like. They embrace it and fix it if possible.

Brave New World Vs. Feed

If you look at the book Feed, and then compare it to the book Brave New World, you find a lot of similarities. One similarity that really stuck out to me was the advancement of technology and how it is making their worlds worse. In Feed, the advanced technology was causing the people living in that world to resort to wearing masks and special clothes when they went near the ocean, they didn't have a real sun or clouds, they didn't even have real farm animals. Everything was artificial and it was killing them. In Brave New World, the technology they use is for education purposes. They are taught from birth what social rank they will be, what they like, and what they don't like. This basically tells them what to think and do. They don't really have any mind or opinion of their own. If they don't like something or if they want to escape reality, they take a soma and its gone.