Brave New World shares a lot of the same themes as George Orwell’s 1984. Huxley warns that excess focus on technology and factory line production can lead to an unethical, immoral society. Similarly, George Orwell placing too much power in the hands of the government, along with advanced technology can also destroy civilization from within. Furthermore, the author Technopoly adds that technology is always next religion, and develops how this relationship further shapes these societies into what he calls “technocracies,” or places where technology rises above all other aspects of life. People no longer are singularly motivated by religion for salvation from poverty, as they can utilize technology to build themselves a better life, for example. Technology has replaced many of the central goals in life, and is instead viewed as a solution to the problems that plague society. All three of these authors share the notion that while it may have the capacity for good, technology can be a double edged sword when it comes to harnessing it in government.
Brave New World has parallels in 1984, because of the system that is set up in the way they control the people. Although Brave New World, controls them through pleasure and 1984 uses pain and strict rules, they shame a same type of overall rule. The both societies 24/7 keep their citizens feeling those emotions. This keeps the citizens from causing rebellion or distress among the people. It keeps everything in order so to speak. Also in that from birth they teach the children that live in their societies to be robots. They follow the same routines because they are told to do so, in 1984 with the Junior spies and in Brave New World, with the children displaying sexual acts because they were taught to do so.
