Brave New World and ‘Gattaca’

While reading the Brave New World, the book made me wonder if it was possible for our society to turn into the Brave New World society, in the future. I also wondered if anyone that read this book thought it was a good idea to change into the Brave New World society, or even wished for it to. When our technology is much advanced like the Brave New World, so advanced so that humans could be born from bottles, would people choose to let their children be born from them?

I think Brave New World has similar technology as the movie ‘Gattaca’, and I can relate them to each other. Just like the Brave New World being able to control everyone’s intelligence, and their castes, in ‘Gattaca’, parents were able to choose their own children’s talents (abilities), which made their society extremely unfair for those who were naturally born. Since I’ve watched/read both stories, although both of them seem possible, I think the society in ‘Gattaca’ seems more likely for our modern society to change into. In the Brave New World, I wondered if it would be possible to have everyone agreeing that their children would be born from bottles, and chosen to be in certain castes, doing the work their told to do, without choice. On the other hand, in ‘Gattaca’, the parents are given choices, if they wanted their children to be born naturally or not. Although I think it would be more likely for them to choose children who are born with technology, I think it is more likely to happen since people are given the ‘choice’.