632-After Ford, roughly the 26 th century A.D.-and everyone is born out of a test tube in the ‘Hatchery’. ![]() ![]() The first thing we learn, from a character who is the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, about the world in the novel is that it is the year A.F. (Image: hywards/Shutterstock) From Alpha to Epsilon What are these technologies, and how does Huxley see the impact of technology on life? The society described in the Brave New World is one in which all babies are born in a laboratory. One of the main ideas is the way the technology is used in this future world. Instead of the features of the future society slowly being revealed, we get an information dump before we even meet the main characters. ![]() , University of Connecticut In the first few chapters of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley lays out all the features of the society he describes.
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