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“We have arrived at that brave new world that seemed so distant in 1932 when Aldous Huxley wrote about human beings created in test tubes in what he called hatchery. In recent weeks, we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them.” President George W. Bush, 2001It is evident that as we progress into the future, we are faced with growing moral and ethical concerns about humanity and its ambition to become god. The moral and ethical concerns we are faced with today are human cloning, genetic engineering, and step cell research. Good morning everyone, my name is Scott Ridley, the director of Blade Runner. Blade Runner is a movie of the dystopic science fiction genre and is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The world in Blade Runner somewhat resembles the world created by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Blade Runner and Brave New World both predict a world where humanity has lost its way and has been profoundly manipulate by science and technology; worlds where nature has no influence on humanity. Through the study of text from different historical and cultural background, it can be seen that the issue dealt in texts are greatly influenced by
Many futuristic routines predicted by Huxley have been achieved by the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although science and technology have brought benefits to humans and improved the quality of life, they are still a threat is prediction comes true. Huxley predicted the creation of embryos in test tubes which is becoming more and more apparent in the world today. Through the increasing advancement in science and technology, couples today are able to produce babies called ‘designer babies’, which means that they are able to choose the physical characteristics of the babies and well as able to remove any genetic disease. The world today is increasing becoming the brave new world. Huxley predicted the elimination of disease, which is possible through this technique. Huxley predicts the disappearance of musical instruments in Brave New World. Due to increasing technology, we are able to make synthetic music which could possible mean the end of instruments. Genetic Engineering is also becoming increasing popular as scientists are able to produce genetically modified foods which might have some health benefits. The increasing threat of science and technology taking over human life is becoming more evident to people today. This can be seen as there have been a increase in debates and protest against stem cell research, genetic engineering and IVF. the context in which they were created. The context of Blade Runner was as such that during the 1980s, the technological and scientific developments became more immediate in everyday life. Along with the increasing development of personal computer and mechanical production, came fears of redundancy of jobs, invasion of privacy and more importantly the fear of technology reaching such point to imitate humanity. People were becoming increasing aware of the effects of industrialisation such as pollution, acid rain, global warming, as well as overpopulation and extinction of animal species. Blade Runner and Brave New World are both of the dystopic scientific fiction genre. Both text present a world where joy is not evident. World where nature is no longer a part of humanity. Blade Runner uses film noir to show the dark and inhumane side of human nature with cynicism and emphasizes dark shadowy sides of human behaviour. Film Noir was employed in Blade
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