I know no one really reads the posts I write about books, but I spend a good deal of time reading so I figure I might as well put my thoughts down somewhere so that at the very least I can reference them. I have a favor to ask on this one, though.
Read this book.
Aldous Huxley does with Brave New World what 1984 couldn't do. He presents a utopian/dystopian future which is not only somewhat believable, but actually feasible. Not so much the mechanics of the future world in terms of flying cars and things like that, but more the way that he presents a conceivable way that an elite upper class could control lower classes.
I don't necessarily think the things in the book are going to happen, at least I sincerely hope they don't, but it is certainly a good exercise in thinking about the future and your part in shaping that future.
Alright this is getting a little too after-school-special. Go pick up this book (it's a classic so it's cheap, you can probably even download it somewhere) and give it a read. Tell me that you read it, we will talk about it.
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This movie was entertaining. There are a few important things I took away from this movie. One: I have the same sunglasses as Tony Stark (I had them first, asshole). Middle Eastern people are apparently just the automatic bad guy in American movies anymore. Flying metal shit is neat.