The Future Has Caught Up With Us - Paul Craig Roberts
John Derbyshire is the sole remaining adult writing for National
Review. In a recent issue, he noted that Aldous Huxley's "Brave New
World," first published in 1932, now reads like contemporary news.
Huxley's fearsome predictions of a 26th century world have all come
true six centuries early — in vitro fertilization, genetically modified
crops, stem-cell research, promiscuous recreational sex, the demise of
marriage and families, and the epidemic use of prescription and illegal
drugs to escape from anxiety, frustration and disappointment.
Alas, Franz Kafka's "The Trial," published in 1925, and George
Orwell's "1984," published in 1949, also have been turned into period
pieces by the practices of the Bush Regime....
http://www.creators.com/opinion/paul-craig-roberts.html?columnsName=pcr
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