Huxley's Predictions

In the book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley makes a lot of predictions about the future, and since we are in the future now we can obviously see that some of these predictions are not true. We are not born in bottles, or take soma, don't wear birth control belts, and we certainly don't worship Ford. Despite all of this, some of Ford's predictions are accurate. We have more effective forms of birth control, we have the technology to make a test-tube baby (which is similar to a bottle baby), and a lot of us still worship some godlike figure or we have an idea of what our religion is. One thing that I think will never happen that Ford said would happen is that History is totally obliterated off the Earth, and all traces of historical figures and events have been wiped away, leaving hardly any evidence behind. I think that Huxley's society does have some elements of truth in it. I think that the idea of bokanovskifying eggs is something that would be very interesting to see, but too many people in our society today would be against that idea. However, something to keep in mind is that we do have some technology that can alter a baby to be what we want it to be. Some people think that this is unethical, which is why I think that this is a big piece of their society, but is not a big piece of our society in 2009. Also, another idea that I think is too irrelevant is how the classes are separated, and how the society in Huxley's book has "Savages." I think that we have people who are uncivilized in our society today, but we don't barricade them from the rest of the world and treat them like they are animals in the zoo. I do think that transportation is one relevant part of Huxley's story, and although ours in 2009 is not as advanced as Huxley's, almost everybody has a car. And if somebody doesn't use a car, then they use public transportation. We can also get to places relatively fast and without too many delays. I do think that one idea in Huxley's society, which is that everybody belongs to everyone else, is interesting, but that kind of thing could only be possible if everyone were the same, had the same ideas, and obviously our society tends to embrace diversity. Our society is also based on the idea of a family, whereas Huxley's society is not.
A lot of Huxley’s ideas seem a bit too absurd, but I think that Huxley’s idea of advanced technology is definitely something that is relevant to our society today in 2009. We do embrace technology, and maybe someday we will all fly helicopters, and maybe there might be some more test-tube babies. I think that in our society, we have the tools to make our society better through technology, but we will not take it to the extremes that Aldous Huxley has