Technopoly Blog

Just by reading the first paragraph I can see a relationship towards Brave New World. The idea that with new inventions being created people have the opportunity to change a society. In Brave New World there is the moving assembly line which allows the government to mass produce humans. In the chapter it talks about how earlier inventions have influenced more modern technology. In the chapter it explains the idea of technocracy where it's a society only loosely controlled by social custom and religious tradition and driven by the impulse to invent. The idea of a loosely controlled tradition isn't good because it allows negative ideas into the conversation. Their is also the idea of a Technopoly which is basically a totalitarian technocracy. In the chapter there was a quote that caught my eye it says "Everyone invented, whoever owned an enterprise sought ways and means to make his goods more speedily, more perfectly, and often of improved beauty. Anonymously and inconspicuously the old tools were transformed into modern instruments." This quote caught my eye because it made me look at Brave New World differently as an enterprise. In Brave New World they want to make better humans faster and more perfect so they can have a "perfect" society. What they do is trade old techniques with newer ones by using the moving assembly line. Frederick Wilson Taylor is being discussed in the chapter because of his beliefs. The belief that the primary, if not the only, goal of human labor is efficiency; that technical calculation is in all respects superior to human judgement. These beliefs is what Brave New World is supported on. The government needs to be efficient when creating the perfect society. With the ideas in the chapter it makes you look at Brave New World with different perspectives.