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  2. Brave New World (1980 film) - Wikipedia

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    Brave New World is an American television film first shown in 1980. [1] It was also shown on the BBC that same year, and is an adaptation of the 1932 novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley . [ 2 ]

  3. Feelie (Brave New World) - Wikipedia

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    A feelie is a fictional form of entertainment that appears in the 1932 dystopian sci-fi novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.They are a type of film in which the viewer is able to feel all the sensations felt by the protagonist through the use of advanced technology such as a "scent organ", pneumatics and an electric field.

  4. Brave New World - Wikipedia

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    Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. [3] Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning ...

  5. History of money - Wikipedia

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    Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. Hachette Book. ISBN 978-0316417198. Irigoin, Alejandra. "The end of a silver era: the consequences of the breakdown of the Spanish Peso standard in China and the United States, 1780s–1850s." Journal of World History (2009): 207–243. online. Jevons, W. S. Money and the Mechanism of Exchange.

  6. Soma (Brave New World) - Wikipedia

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    Soma is a fictional drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian sci-fi novel Brave New World.In the novel, soma is an "opiate of the masses" that replaces religion and alcohol in a peaceful, but immoral, high-tech society far in the future.

  7. Bokanovsky's Process - Wikipedia

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    Bokanovsky's Process is a fictional process of human cloning that is a key aspect of the world envisioned in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World. The process is applied to fertilized human eggs in vitro, causing them to split into identical genetic copies of the original. The process can be repeated several times, though the maximum ...

  8. Brave New World (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Brave New World is an American science fiction drama television series loosely based on the classic 1932 novel of the same name by Aldous Huxley. [2] It premiered on the day NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock launched, July 15, 2020. [3] In October 2020, the series was cancelled after one season. [4]

  9. Thomas Robert Malthus - Wikipedia

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    In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, a dystopian novel set in a World State which controls reproduction, women wear the "Malthusian belt", containing "the regulation supply of contraceptives". [ 87 ] In the musical Urinetown , written by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann , the characters live in a society in which a fee must be paid in order to ...