scholarly journals Genetics, Bioethics and Space Travel: GATTACA

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Clare Sansom
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Human Biology ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Genetics And Genomics ◽  
Second World

It has been said that all stories set in the future say more about the concerns of the time in which they are written than they do about future possibilities. Long before the genome era, writers were investigating the possibility of changing the biological make-up of humans. Questions about human biology, identity and eugenics (from the Greek ‘well-born’) have been raised by writers ever since Plato; classic novels addressing these issues include H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1931). Eugenics in fiction passed out of fashion after the Second World War, but recent developments in genetics and genomics have brought these ideas into the foreground again.

Brave New World

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-64
Author(s):  
Alex Brummer
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Aldous Huxley ◽  
World War ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

This chapter mentions Aldous Huxley, who wrote the Brave New World after the upheaval of the First World War and before the terrors of the Second World War. It highlights Huxley's contemplation of revolutionary change that captured what he sensed as deep-seated changes in the national feeling, along with the questioning of long-held social and moral assumptions. It also discusses the economic shockwave delivered by the coronavirus, which caused an unprecedented loss of output from the month before lockdown to April 2020 when most of the economy was shut and threatened the highest level of unemployment in a century. The chapter explores the EU and the seventeen members of the eurozone that were considered not in the best of shape long before the coronavirus added to the dislocation. It talks about the membership of the euro that had delivered economic chaos, hardship and political turmoil in Greece.

The Modern State and the Society of Hyper-Order from 1939

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-91
Author(s):  
T. K. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern State ◽  
World War ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Hyper Order ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Second World

This chapter serves as a companion to its predecessor. It surveys the temporary dislocation of state power across much of Europe during the Second World War: before turning to its reinforcement and enhancement in the decades that followed. It examines the unfolding consequences of the 1968 crisis of legitimacy across Western societies: before noting the apparently unassailable position of the Western State against all violent challengers in the post-Cold War Brave New World of the early 1990s. Finally, it introduces the strikingly open-ended juncture of the early twenty-first century, setting up a more in-depth discussion in Chapter Three.

Teaching in a Brave New World

Diogenes ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Louis Van Delft
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Metaphoric Language ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Second World ◽  
Ultimate Purpose

This article is essentially a commentary on a little-known text by `Alain' (whose real name was Emile-Auguste Chartier), successively entitled Les marchands de sommeil and Vigiles de l'esprit. This piece of work, initially a prize-giving speech to students in a Parisian lycée, was rewritten by Alain many years later during the Second World War. It describes with acute intelligence and in a splendid metaphoric language the enduring and compelling proposition that the formation of critical judgement should be the ultimate purpose of all teaching.

The Single-Rotor Helicopter with Rigidly-Mounted Blades

1963 ◽  
Vol 67 (634) ◽  
pp. 651-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Heppe
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
World War ◽  
Mass Market ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Second World

For many years, studies of various light aircraft designs have been carried on by the Lockheed-California Company in search of a vehicle that had the potential of truly generating the “air age”—a vehicle which would perform a useful service to many people, in many jobs. Shortly after the Second World War, these studies were directed along the lines of present-day light aeroplanes, but were eventually discarded upon recognition of the limited utility of these vehicles when related to general public acceptance. However, in 1959, spurred by recent developments in VTOL craft, the Lockheed research team again raised the question, “Is it possible today to develop a vehicle of low cost and with sufficient utility to reach the mass market?”

Naming of Parts; or, The Comforts of Classification: Thomas Jefferson's Construction of America as Fact and Myth

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Manning
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Many ◽  
Second World

Henry Reed's poem of the Second World War offers a studied, ironic catalogue of some parts of experience silencing others. Here are observable facts, given as imperative command; knowledge of their use is for the future, rather than a possession of the present, however: one of the many things we (or you) have not got. Here also is the beauty of nature and its utter irrelevance to the human struggle. “Naming of Parts” excludes more than it includes: what is not said constantly overbears and threatens to break through what is. But the balance of information is precariously maintained, the unspeakable, the horror which is the truth of the war being disguised, expressed, and controlled in the naming of parts.In a very different register, William Gass writes in his Habitations of the Word,Lists, then, are for those who savor, who revel and wallow, who embrace, not only the whole of things, but all of its accounts, histories, descriptions, justifications.

Un: 75 years after the Second world war

2020 ◽  
pp. 6-32
Author(s):  
L. E. Grishaeva
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Security Council ◽  
New World ◽  
International Security ◽  
Second World War ◽  
International Organization ◽  
World War ◽  
Peace And Justice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

October 24, 1945 as a result of long labors and aspirations, in the first phase of the anti-Hitler coalition countries, began operating international organization designed to end war, promote peace and justice and the coming of a better life for all mankind. The author writes about the history of the creation of the United Nations and contemporary issues facing it. The fact that the UN has universal competence, a wide representative composition, and its Charter is the basis of the legitimacy of decision-making on maintaining peace and strengthening international security. About conceptual approaches to reform of the UN and its main organ — the Security Council. About what allowed the UN to prevent a new world war for 75 years.

2. An intellectual poison?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Dodds
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Critical Geopolitics ◽  
World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Second World

The notion of geopolitics has not always been well received. It has been accused of being intellectually fraudulent, ideologically suspect, and tainted with associations with Nazism and fascism. ‘An intellectual poison?’ charts a brief history of geopolitics from before the Second World War to the present day looking at its origins, development, and reception. What is critical geopolitics? Geopolitics has attracted a great deal of academic and popular attention, often with little appreciation of its controversial intellectual history. Presidents and political commentators seem to love using the term: they associate it with danger, threats, space, and power. It is often used to make predictions about the future direction of politics.

Museums and the Future

Antiquity ◽  
1944 ◽  
Vol 18 (69) ◽  
pp. 42-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. F. Grimes
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
Acts Of God ◽  
Second World

It has long been obvious that a new policy is wanted for our museums and their buildings. The need, often discussed, now takes on a new urgency. The second world war has visited our cities with insensate destruction on a scale which we have hitherto associated only with Acts of God. Some of our museums have already suffered —and as yet we cannot say when or where more will be damaged or destroyed. Replanning schemes will see old museums rebuilt, new museums established in many places; and now, while such schemes are being blocked out, is the time to see that individually and as a body the museums are planned and developed to the best advantage. The necessary driving force must come from a comparatively small body of people. For as a nation we can hardly be called museum conscious: we have no official museum policy, and the local efforts which are the substitute for it operate so unevenly that a large part of the population is quite without a service which ought to be of great educational and cultural value to all.

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