... Eighty-four are the most influential futuristic novels of the 20th century (Firchow 83). In Orwell's story the state controls its citizens with fear and punishment. Winston Smith (protagonist of 1984) is forced to love Big Brother by the starving rats in room 101. In Aldous Huxley's satire the World State's motto ... or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they"re so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave" (Huxley 169). Harold Bloom describes Brave New World as "a nightmarish vision of the future in which sc...

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Comparison Essay: Future of Computers and Humanity What does the future have in store for the human race? The question cannot be accurately answered because it would be impossible to describe precisely what hasn't actually occurred in time. Using facts from the past and making a logical decision based on them is ... , computers have given us a few scares such as the Y2K bug, but in the most part have been nothing but full of options to help us complete any task. Take Deep Junior, a supercomputer used solely for playing chess, as one of the first artificial intelligent machines to compete head...

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