Aldous Huxley created a literary masterpiece that shows a possible, grim future produced by the misuse of science and technology. In his book Brave New World, the world controllers use various scientific methods to dehumanize the population in order to control them. The advanced use of biotechnology has allowed the government to completely eliminate the family and physically modify the population to fit specific specifications based on the needs of society. They also use various brainwashing methods to ensure that the population properly conforms to their civilizational scheme. Through the use of primitive conditioning techniques combined with current ones, everything people think, like and dislike is predetermined by the government. Of course, no system is completely flawless. By producing the miracle drug soma and circulating it in large quantities around the world, the holes in the system are easily repaired and the dehumanizing dystopia becomes even more acceptable. This is especially necessary with regards to the production of human beings. In Brave New World humans are created on assembly lines instead of being born naturally. In fact, the very idea of ​​family and love is widely considered pornographic. Hatcheries across the World State use donated ovaries and sperm to create test-tube babies that follow an assembly line similar to the one used by Henry Ford. From the assembly line, the embryos are physically conditioned into one of the world's five classes; Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon. Alphas, the mentally and physically strongest citizens, are the highest class, while Epsilons, the mentally and physically weakest citizens, are the lowest class. Alpha and Beta... middle of paper... ls. They are created at the factory and customized to one of five product specifications. They are trained to accept the implications of society and their masters who control it. When they're not in a self-induced coma, they happily follow directions like the robots they are. While the technology in this world is what made this possible, it is not what caused it. The culprits are the World Controllers who have abused this technology. Technology is only as evil as the people who use it. Works Cited Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. New York: Perennial Classics, 1998.Huxley, Aldous. "Hypnopedia." The Brave New World Revisited. New York: Harper, 1958. 85-95.Morgan, S. Philip, Suzanne Shanahan, and Whitney Welsh. “Brave New Worlds: Philosophy, Politics, and Science in Human Biotechnology.” Population and Development Review 31.1 (2005): 127-44.