This is an irritating framing that reviewers often take when discussing dystopian novels written in the past. Huxley wasn't predicting the future, he was satirizing his present. They're similar because 2020 human beings are very similar to 1930s ones.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/arts/television/brave-new-world-peacock.html …
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Out of the three of these, only chemical birth control seems like it's an actual "prediction." There is no genetic engineering in the novel; it's closer to calibrated fetal alcohol syndrome. Taking drugs that make you feel better well predates 1932.pic.twitter.com/n3sT6YVXMJ
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This is like saying Orwell correctly predicted that there would be a year 1984—and was eerily right about when it would happen.
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