[ExI] Huxley or Orwell - who got it right?

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 6:26 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> The job of the SF writer is not so much to predict the future as to
> prevent it.
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​Now just what the hell does that mean?  Are you stealing a quote?  Many
tech advances have been predicted by SF writers.  bill w​





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> Perhaps Orwell warned us sufficiently to prevent Nineteen Eighty Four, but
> Huxley may not have necessarily intended to prevent all the things he saw
> in Brave New World.
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> spike
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