When your Brave New World revisited, which was published about two years ago, you did claim that much of what you forecast had come true. I mean, for example, the use of drugs and this instance of people having their thoughts directed while they were…

…kind of regime? Well, I think you could. I mean, this was one of the, sort of, what I may call the messages of Brave New World, that it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in…

…they're valid or not. As a matter of fact, I've just finished a kind of utopian fantasy, which is the opposite of Brave New World, which is about a society in which a serious effort is made to help its members to realize their desirable potentialities.…

…others, I would say. You do, of course, anticipate this world of tranquilizers and pep drugs and truth drugs in your novel, Brave New World, to some extent. Yes, I was, of course, there I projected these things five or six hundred years into the future…

…number of these forecasts have already come true and come true with a vengeance. Are you going to write a postscript to Brave New World? Well, I've written a few chapters on the things which have already come true and in general on the menaces to…

…they may not be acute, particularly in the democratic countries, are potentially very grave indeed. And unforeseen by you in Brave New World? Some of them were foreseen and I think some of them I didn't have sufficient imagination to foresee, but I…

…one at the moment. Can we ask what its subject is? Well, it's a kind of fantasy. It's a kind of reverse Brave New World about a society in which serious efforts are made to develop the potentialities of individuals to the full. It's an extremely…

…Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley, 27 years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today, Mr. Huxley says that his…

…light. Well, now, this is a very interesting subject. I mean, in this book which you mentioned, this book of mine, Brave New World, I postulated a substance called soma, which was a very versatile drug. It would... make people feel happy in small doses,…

…indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do, partly by drugs, as I foresaw in Brave New World, partly by these new techniques of propaganda. They will do it by bypassing the sort of rational side of man, and appealing…

…discussion of the impact of science and technology on democratic institutions by presenting the man who first saw it all. In Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, Mr. Huxley has indicated the problems that we are now going to discuss. All of my…

…of science and technology on democratic institutions by presenting the man who first saw it all. In Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, Mr. Huxley has indicated the problems that we are now going to discuss. All of my generation were brought up…

…or the creation, if they do not exist, of democratic institutions? Not long ago, Mr Eugene Black, the president of the World Bank, expressed the opinion that it would be extremely difficult, perhaps even impossible, for an underdeveloped country with a very…

…and grandparents 30 and 40 years ago. And what of elementary education? UNESCO recently provided an answer. Since the end of World War II, heroic efforts have been made to teach the whole world how to read. The population explosion has largely stultified…

…now in process of revolutionising industrial production and the whole system of administrative and bureaucratic control, were first developed. During World War II, writes Mr John Diebold, the theory and use of feedback was studied in great detail by a number…

…by the cost of human... Well, look, there's another hint, surely, and that is Aldous Huxley. When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, was he seriously contemplating a possible future, or was he playing around with ideas, would you say? Oh, there's always…

…a long time, with interruptions. And it's a utopian fantasy. It's an attempt to do the opposite of what I try to do in Brave New World. In Brave New World, I try to draw a picture of a society where a deliberate effort was made to iron out human…

…And it's a utopian fantasy. It's an attempt to do the opposite of what I try to do in Brave New World. In Brave New World, I try to draw a picture of a society where a deliberate effort was made to iron out human differences and to create…

…in the end, judging utopian fiction as utopian fiction, that doesn't matter. No, not a bit. Well... Books like 1984 and Brave New World and I assume Huxley's forthcoming book Island are, as it were, cosmic utopias, aren't they? They take in the whole…

…novel, Island. This is how he described the book to me. It's an attempt do the opposite of what I try to do in Brave New World. In Brave New World, I try to draw a picture of a society where a deliberate effort was made to iron out human differences…

…is how he described the book to me. It's an attempt do the opposite of what I try to do in Brave New World. In Brave New World, I try to draw a picture of a society where a deliberate effort was made to iron out human differences and to create a…

…And as a human being, he was a wonderful man. I was very, very fond of him. I saw him first briefly during the First World War, and then I really didn't see him again until 1926, but during the last four years of his life, my first wife and I…

…the Critical and Material Award rewards of his latest novel, Island. Mr. Huxley, in your very famous novel of 30 years ago, Brave New World, you drew us a picture of what I suppose was the inevitable consequence of living the kinds of lives that we lead…

…resources, made me think more than I would have done otherwise. It probably also preserved me from being killed during the First World War. In fact, all my friends were killed. I mean, they all became second lieutenants and about 75% of them never came…

…had one or two tutors, and one of them, or two of them, influenced me very much. One who was killed during the First World War, and another who is now an eminent historian, Sir George Clark, who is the provost of Oriel College in Oxford until he…

…too. So that I was never really alone then. Let me turn, if I may, Mr. Huxley, to one of your most famous novels, Brave New World. The world which you depicted for us in that novel was a world that was, I suppose, 600 years hence, was it not? Yes.…

…estimate of the date at which we might arrive in this brave new world. Well, this was actually the first motivation for Brave New World was a reaction to a very over-optimistic utopia of H.G. Wells' Men Like Gods, which annoyed me. And I actually began…

…it's a very remarkable book. But my own feeling is that the scientific dictatorships of the future will probably resemble Brave New World more than they resemble 1984. Not for humanitarian reasons, but because manipulation of the mind and the physiology is…

…good society. This, as I say, seems to me absolutely essential. Mr. Huxley, your book Island was, in a sense, an antidote to Brave New World. You showed us what could be. Why did you give it an unhappy ending? Well, because I think if such an island…

When your Brave New World revisited, which was published about two years ago, you did claim that much of what you forecast had come true. I mean, for example, the use of drugs and this instance of people having their thoughts directed while they were…

…kind of regime? Well, I think you could. I mean, this was one of the, sort of, what I may call the messages of Brave New World, that it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in…

…they're valid or not. As a matter of fact, I've just finished a kind of utopian fantasy, which is the opposite of Brave New World, which is about a society in which a serious effort is made to help its members to realize their desirable potentialities.…

a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley, 27 years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today, Mr. Huxley says that his fictional…

…this life. Well, now, this is a very interesting subject. I mean, in this book that you mentioned, this book of mine, Brave New World, I postulated a substance called soma, which was a very versatile drug. It would make people feel happy in small doses,…

…indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do, partly by drugs, as I foresaw in Brave New World, partly by these new techniques of propaganda. They will do it by bypassing the sort of rational side of man and appealing…

…Today, the precept had swallowed up the concept. I was so completely absorbed in looking, so thunderstruck by what I actually saw, that I could not be aware of anything else. It was... You are watching Your Window to the World, WTVW, Channel 11, Chicago.

…Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley, 27 years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today, Mr. Huxley says that his…

…light. Well, now, this is a very interesting subject. I mean, in this book which you mentioned, this book of mine, Brave New World, I postulated a substance called soma, which was a very versatile drug. It would... make people feel happy in small doses,…

…indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do, partly by drugs, as I foresaw in Brave New World, partly by these new techniques of propaganda. They will do it by bypassing the sort of rational side of man, and appealing…

Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh…

…kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the 7th century after Ford And a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the period…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge wouldn't you say that the period in what 1936 when you wrote Brave New World there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World. is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of... certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the 7th century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the 7th century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World. is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the 7th century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the period…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World. is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of... certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World. is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World. is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World. is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World. is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…of... certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the 7th century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I…

…kind of certainly implicit pessimism here about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World, is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World. is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…persuading people to do things without their knowledge. Wouldn't you say that the period in, what, 1936, when you wrote Brave New World, there was a kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course,…

…kind of certainly implicit peasantism here, about the future, about man? Yes, and unfortunately, of course, I put all the events in Brave New World in the seventh century after Ford, and a great deal of it has come true within 27 years, or whatever the…

…employ all the resources of modern psychology. And then sleep teaching, for example, which I talked about in a comic way in Brave New World. is now quite an important industry in this country. I was talking the other day to a man who manufactures these…

…English intellectual life. Annie Kay and Point Counterpoint are already classics. And very few literate people are unfamiliar with Brave New World, Mr. Huxley's frightening picture of the world of tomorrow. Since the late 1930s, Mr. Huxley has lived in Los…

…things, and then Well, I mean, it was among other things. It was, fortunately for me, it prevented me from going to the First World War, in which the majority of my friends were killed. And so I no doubt may owe my life to it. And... I would…

…out my ideas more clearly than I would otherwise. Well, certainly one of the books of yours that is most discussed is Brave New World. If you were to write another Brave New World today, what differences or changes in emphasis do you think you would…

…Well, certainly one of the books of yours that is most discussed is Brave New World. If you were to write another Brave New World today, what differences or changes in emphasis do you think you would make? Well, I would probably try to write an entirely…

…emphasis do you think you would make? Well, I would probably try to write an entirely different, I mean, I think Brave New World, there were obviously the defects, there were failures to foresee things, but of course there were also things which already…

…already have come true a great deal quicker than I thought they would. But I think a very interesting sort of sequel to Brave New World, which I would like someday to write on, it's quite difficult, would be a description of some sort of a community in…

…reaping the critical and material rewards of his latest novel, Island. Mr. Huxley, in your very famous novel of 30 years ago, Brave New World, you drew us a picture of what I suppose was the inevitable consequence of living the kinds of lives that we…

…resources, made me think more than I would have done otherwise. It probably also preserved me from being killed during the First World War. In fact, all my friends were killed. I mean, they all became second lieutenants and about 75% of them never came…

…had one or two tutors, and One of them, or two of them, influenced me very much. One who was killed during the First World War, and another who is now an eminent historian, Sir George Clarke, who was the provost of Oriel College in Oxford until he…

…too. So that I was never really alone then. Let me turn, if I may, Mr. Huxley, to one of your most famous novels, Brave New World. The world which you depicted for us in that novel was a world that was, I suppose, 600 years hence, was it not? Yes.…

…estimate of the date at which we might arrive at this brave new world. Well, this was actually the first motivation for Brave New World was a reaction to a very over-optimistic utopia of H.G. Wells' Men Like Gods which annoyed me and I actually began…

…it's a very remarkable book. But my own feeling is that the scientific dictatorships of the future will probably resemble Brave New World more than they resemble 1984. Not for humanitarian reasons, but because manipulation of the mind and the physiology is…

…good society. This, as I say, seems to me absolutely essential. Mr. Huxley, your book Island was, in a sense, an antidote to Brave New World. You showed us what could be. Why did you give it an unhappy ending? Well, because I think if such an island…

…And this is a problem which has interested me for many years and about which I wrote 30 years ago a fable, The Brave New World, which is essentially the account of a society making use of all the devices at that time available, and some of the devices…

…I become more and more interested in what is happening. And here I would like briefly to compare... the parable of Brave New World, with another parable, which was put forth more recently, in George Orwell's book, 1984. Orwell wrote his book between, I…

…they will be more and more interested in the kind of techniques which I imagined and described from existing realities in Brave New World. So that... It seems to me, then, that this ultimate revolution is really not very far away, that already a number…

…or got relief occasionally. So here again we see the same sort of distribution. And similarly, with regard to what in Brave New World I call hypnopedia, which is the sleep teaching, I was talking not long ago to a man who manufactures records which…

…could be used there is for example the pharmacological method this This was one of the things I talked about in Brave New World. I invented a hypothetical drug called Soma, which, of course, could not exist as it stood there because it was simultaneously…

…Charles Darwin in his book, The Next Million Years, which I think was one which, in different terms, I envisaged in Brave New World. He points out that the human species is still a wild species. It has never been domesticated. A domesticated species is…

…of the race, it must remain wild. And this was the part of the fable, the dramatic part of the fable of Brave New World, is that the people in the upper hierarchy who were not ruthlessly conditioned could break down. And, I mean, this... Charles Darwin…

…any writer in history. I was thinking last night that I think it can literally be said that with one novel, Brave New World, Mr. Huxley has been read by more college students in America than any writer except Shakespeare. Always through this long period…

…time always an element of hope of the potentialities of man. The perhaps despairing note of many of his works, especially in Brave New World, is that so many people want it to happen that it is more likely to happen than some of the prophecies like…

…more likely to happen than some of the prophecies like 1984. And I think it's true that, as Mr. Huxley has said in Brave New World Revisited, that the major flaw of Brave New World is that he put the fulfillment of it six centuries ahead. It looks as…

…like 1984. And I think it's true that, as Mr. Huxley has said in Brave New World Revisited, that the major flaw of Brave New World is that he put the fulfillment of it six centuries ahead. It looks as if it might be achieved much sooner. Since 1940,…

…a problem which has intrigued me for many years, which I've been working on recently in writing a kind of counterpart to Brave New World in the form of a kind of positive utopia, where I've attempted to think out, imagine some of the things which would…

…about 30 years ago and has been sounding at regular intervals ever since. Many writers, before and after Mr. Huxley's A Brave New World, had foreseen the possibility of an industrial machine so complex that man would be its servant and not its master. And…

…novels, essays, short stories, biographical and historical studies, plays, and film scenarios. Among his novels, I'm sure you know Brave New World, Chrome Yellow, Point Counterpoint, and Eighth and Essence. It was in 1959 that he received an award from the…