The Developing Relationship of Humankind and Technology in Brave New World and Neuromancer

Abstract

This paper will focus on the way in which humankind and technology interact in two novels: Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley and Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson. Both novels are influential works written by acclaimed authors and the plots of the novels rely heavily on the relationship between humankind and technology. Because the plots of both novels are based in the future, they serve as an insight not only into the nature of the relationship humankind had with technology back in the time when the novel was written, but also into the expected development of that relationship based on the available technological knowledge of that time.