forewarning of the "manufacturing" of humans reveals the devastating results that our misuse of advancing technology can bring upon mankind.
In Brave New World, Huxley prophetically predicts the mass-production of humans. Huxley's prediction begins with the first chapter, where the Director of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center gives a tour to prospective employees. The Director explains to them the Bokanovsky Process. In the Bokanovsky's Process, "a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult."1 Before, one egg resulted in one human, but now ninety-six twins are being produced from one egg. The Director also explains that with Podsnap's Technique, a facilitated ripening process, "you get an average of nearly eleven thousand brothers and sisters in a hundred and fifty batches of i
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