Future Imperfect
Jul 15, 2020
3 minutes
BC
UTOPIAS AREN’T ALL THEY ARE cracked up to be. Take Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The 1932 novel revolves around a futuristic society obsessed with achieving happiness… no matter what the price. NBCUniversal launches its Peacock streaming service in the US this month with the latest small-screen adaptation of the groundbreaking tale. Showrunner David Wiener believes that the literary masterpiece is one of those rare novels that has become more relevant as time progresses.
“What Huxley worried about considerably is how people would use technology to hold
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