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LESSON 1 · Sci-Fi That Saw the Future

PAUSE TO THINK

Where does the title come from?

Shakespeare's The Tempest

The phrase is Miranda's line, "O brave new world, that has such people in't!" She says it in wide-eyed wonder; Huxley uses it as bitter irony for a world that has engineered wonder away.

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