Aldous Huxley Was Right: Tech is Making Us Shallow
October 28, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Asides
Here’s a months-old comic that compares what what British writers Aldous Huxley and George Orwell though of the future, based on their most famous works, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Despite Orwell’s classically haunting belief that technology will make us slaves to a totalitarian government, Huxley’s fears that technology is making us more shallow depressingly seems more plausible (click the thumbnail below for the full version):
The comic above is basically a visual version of Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death.
