Brave New World (2020 TV series)

Year
Creator
David Wiener
Aldous Huxley
Country
United States
Publication Type
Narrative
TV series or episode
Technologies referenced
AI
Augmented reality
Holograms
Ocular implant
Topics
AI
City
Consciousness
Dystopian
Family
Inequality
Romantic relationship
Sex
Surveillance
Sentiment
Dangerous
Fun
Intimate
Intrusive
Oppressive
Prosocial
Characters
Lenina Crowne
Bernard Marx
John the Savage
Frannie
Record Status
One person feels OK with this
Description (in English)

A TV series building upon Aldous Huxley's 1932 novelĀ Brave New World, which portrays a dystopian future where people are bred in test tubes,Ā families, privacy and monogamy are outlawed, and pleasure and the drugĀ somaĀ keep everybody happy and uncritical.Ā 

Pull Quotes

"Don't worry, happens to every child when they first put the optic in--so many perspectives at once." (Bernard to John, s01e08)

Situation machine vision is used in
Brave New World (2020 TV series) (Playful AR)
Brave New World (optical implant overwhelm)
Brave New World (optical implant memory holograms)
Notes
Other situations to add:
- Optical implant taken out - privacy / Lenina crushing hers / epsilon having to cut his out
- Holographic display of New London s01e09

Authored by

Jill
UUID
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unionā€™s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 771800)