The Future of "Brave New World" is "The Time Machine"
Brave New World gives us a dramatic view of a future in which the technology made possible by science brings science to a halt. This future is consistent with the more remote future seen by the Time Traveler in Wells's Time Machine. After the disruptive influence of science has been permanently tamed by the triumph of bureaucracy and eugenics, it is easy to imagine human society remaining stuck in the rigidly conservative caste system of Brave New World for thousands of centuries, until the slow processes of mutation and degeneration reduce our species to the condition of the Eloi and Morlocks as the Time Traveler encounters them in the year Anno Domini 802701 .
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