Brave New Rule-Based Automation
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High School Wasn’t Useless — I Promise
You read Huxley’s “Brave New World” as a sophomore in high school and George Orwell’s “1984” as a senior. Huxley depicted a dystopian future where people, like crops or dog breeds, are genetically engineered to fit specific social roles. This represents a form of rule-based automation where the individual is the concept. In dystopian systems, human behavior is manipulated to support a dictatorship that rules through manipulation, control, and fear. “1984” is considered scarier, so you typically read it in your last year of high school. Both authors wrote about these futuristic societies as imaginary [at the time], and they were depicted in a manner intended to illustrate just how unpleasant and dehumanizing these systems could potentially become.
