He taps into a rich series of popular allusions to a novel which isĬited so often and so automatically in discussions of When King refers to "this brave new world," "We are as gods, and we might as well get good at it" (seeĭ'Souza 1). Given genetically-enhanced abilities for memory and muscle strength,ĭollies and Dollies and Dollies, and techno-utopians who claim that "a brave new world." The "toybox" that Kingĭescribed is now filled with glowing rabbits and fish, mice that are It has become easy, far tooĮasy, to say that the world of biotechnology and designer babies will be Post-9/11, postanthrax, potentially post-human world, one in whichīio-engineered terrors are far from fantasy. It wasĪs if someone had put a large cherry bomb into a child's toyĪlmost thirty years after King's novel, we live in a But itĭidn't seem particularly brave to him, or particularly new. Now build from scratch: "The world, he thought, not according to Him and others to the Free Zone of Boulder, Colorado, where they will One of the survivors ponders all the rapid dislocations that have led Which 99% of Americans are wiped out by the accidental release of a In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, a post-apocalypse epic in Bioethicist Max Mehlman, quoted in Joannie Schrof Fischer's The bottom line is that you can't avoid the brave new world. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council onīioethics, and author of "Preventing a Brave New World" Understanding what it means, and what its full human import is, both for Most people in these discussions are only interested in knowing:Īre you for it or are you against it? I'm interested mostly in
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