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**5. A BRAVE NEW WORLD** **This page will be open till next Friday, the 1st April. Don't forget this is the deadline for your WIKI participation this term!** **A. I selected "A BRAVE NEW WORLD" to name this page as it is a novel by Aldous Huxley that anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. The following video clip is described as follows: "** **In this installment of "Film, Literature and the New World Order," The Corbett Report explores Aldous Huxley's classic work of science-fiction, Brave New World. Brave New World is a dystopic vision of a nightmare future in which worker drones are engineered from birth to perform slave labour for a world dictatorship. Even more frighteningly, the workers have even been engineered to love their servitude. Most frightening of all, Huxley's own family background and experience might show that Brave New World is not so completely fictional as we would like to believe..." ** Will you watch the video closely and react to it? media type="youtube" key="kLTS5cv45Cs" height="195" width="240" **B. 1. a. Genetics is considered to be "THE LAST FRONTIER". Why?****b. Watch the following video clips and comment on them.**1.media type="youtube" key="uLUfWxjsLZA" height="214" width="248"2.media type="youtube" key="sPWDcWEvmyc" height="175" width="357"3. media type="youtube" key="TzhSBYQeW1c" height="214" width="248"4. media type="youtube" key="g5140mlC3Uk" height="234" width="288" **B. As you are incredible movie fans, let's // movietalk! //****1. I've included here a selection of movies on this topic. Have you ever seen any of them? ** **a. The Island - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLPdg3BXiJk ** **b. Aeon Flux - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjXzYOv-I8 ** **c. Godsend - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf9ZqFv63Zc ** **d. The 6th Day - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R3g5i_1eKk ****﻿ ** **Choose the one(s) you've seen and write about a favourite scene or character. ** **C. And do you know any songs related to the topic?! ... I've thought about "Do the Evolution" by Pearl Jam ** media type="youtube" key="aDaOgu2CQtI" height="233" width="368" **I specially like the lyrics and the video clip. Can you guess why? ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">because a woman seems to be on top of everything? <span style="background-color: #009eff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Nuno Bico 11th D **<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You're terrible!!... Just a slight detail: "seems", really??? I thought we were, we are and will always be :)) ** HI, HI, HELLOOOO ! Regarding the videoclip, I guess you can say it's a well-thought perspective of what we've become. First, animals and now... animals in a suit! There's something that hasn't change since the early days. Our cruelty, first with animals and then among men. And that cruelty is even more cruel now that we have the technology to support us in that process. Rita Rebelo, n.º 24, 11.º D I have to say that animals aren't cruel. Cruelty is exclusive to mankind, as animals do what they do just to survive. Very good clip. And a song talking about our evolution... "Run to the Hills" by Iron Maiden pictures what white man did to the American people in the times of colonization very well. It's not our evolution, but it's a part of it and it supports what was said by Rita. João Neto The reason why it's said that genetics are the last frontier it's because if we can change the genes we're born with we can make everyone perfect and make the rest of the world perfect also. Love to see a Pearl Jam music here i'm a fan of that music to :P and it completly applies to the topic i also have another one wich is name Evolution By Korn (posted at the end of my reply) it shows that we have not evolve that much since the time of our ancestor (in this case the apes) it also talks a bit about the last topic and how our kind has killed natural predators and whole those kind of things a good music in my opinion :P. Now about the first video the one teacher posted "the brave new world" my question is : Why invest in clones and not robots ? Seems like they want the clones to be created to do certain tasks to be born to only do that isn't that what robots exist for ? Why created a new person just to explore it and have the same results as a machine can get ? i don't get the point of this "brave new world" in my opinion it is actually stupid but that's my opinion hope to hear the word from others :P media type="youtube" key="m8fm3Z7jgWM" height="218" width="343" Ricardo Afonso HI, HI, HELOOO to yout o Rita!!! Well, Bico is very correct indeed. By making woman the fragility of this world we are making somehow the human race the fragility and that is not correct, we must give back, at least, a part of this world purity, You know everything that is naturall and have born with this world isn´t here anymore and Who is the guilty one?? THE HUMAN RACE!!!! If we can do bad things we also can do some good ones or use those bads into goos ones now!!! Renato 11ºD I agree with João Neto when they say animals live day by day in order to survive, and we can be real cruel sometimes although we don't have that need, and I agree with Ricardo because with gene manipulation we are able to create the so called prefection! Mariana11thA
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I think that more than cruel we're completely out of limits. We can't draw the line. And maybe it is inevitable but it's crucial to have at least a perspective of the huge high we are already falling. We've never been able to distinguish between what is good and what is enough. I'm used to hearing that one of the best qualities human can have is to know when and where to stop. That is nothing but a dream in what regards technology, genetics, and science in general. The resources we're taking down to accomplish that are so important and so rare that Nature is dying, but its left part has the strength to kill us all in a minute. So, yeh I believe that our efforts have to be valued and we need to appreciate our ancients for what they have discovered and developed to provide the life level we're accustomed to but that doesn't enable us from being humble to choose between a livable place and hell. Vitória Melo 11ºD

According to this first video, humans are going to be cloned in the future, and that will contribute to the dictatorship Aldous Huxley's vision, I think. Well, if this really happens, we gotta point out the fact that we're being the most selfish ´´people'' in the planet. Think, you know that with advance of technology in this future years, you'll be able to clone. Well, if you do clone people, population will grow. The world will be overcrowded. What we're going to do is to preserve the actual generation that improoved cloning activity, and other generations won't be able to live. Because, they know all the statistics and they will know when the right time is to stabilize the correct number of people in the world. When that time comes, that society will want to preserve their own generation as they know they would have resources to do it, and they think other generations couldn't handle it. We gotta pay attention, because the advance of science can also leads you to get stuck. Mariana Marques