Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Favorite Book Number 9

This week we reach number nine on the list of favorite books.  It's a tough one and it was written in the 1930's by Aldous Huxley.  It's Brave New World and it paints a horrific picture of life in the future.  Here people are "made" in the laboratory and are given the designation of Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gama or at the bottom of the pile, Epsilon.  You wouldn't want to be one of those as they are assigned the very worst of tasks to keep this frightening society in place.
There are only a few Alpha's made to run everything, but in fact it's the computers that really do all the controlling.  With touch pads every few hundred yards, you are watched in your every movement.  With what we have going on with our computers it seems even more a possible reality as when it was written.  I've read it twice and found it most disturbing, but compelling.

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