[ExI] 1984

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 11:34:27 UTC 2010


2010/1/25 John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>:
> I also recently reread Huxley's Brave New World, although it lacks the
> emotional kick in the gut impact of 1984 it probably better describes our
> future and may even give us an outline to explain the Fermi Paradox.
>  John K Clark

Both 1984 and Huxley's book describe worlds fundamentally stagnating.
But I find ultimately more anti-transhumanist the second, especially
in its depiction of a perversion of technology in view of a final
stability, an end of history, and a freezing of technological
development and technical prometheanism itself.

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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