If you are looking for something to wash over you for 90 minutes then this would do, but given the choice again, I'd read the book instead. This would be well and good but it is certainly never Brave New World. Overall this is a passable TVM that makes very obvious comments about our society by exaggerating them slightly in a future setting. Ferrer was OK and it was nice to see him not playing a sinister creep of one sort or another (although only just!). The supposedly wild and free Cooper is played badly by Guinee I just didn't care for him or his situation and never really got the feel of a man who is gradually realising that he is in hell. The cast are pretty low rent to a man - when Nimoy is a surprise big cameo, you know you're in the sh*t! Gallagher is pretty bland and didn't really do anything for me in the lead and support from Kihlstedt is not great either. Will and Katie help out the family of a mutual friend. Wills new mission is to find the guy behind the explosion. With Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Peter Jacobson, Amanda Righetti. As it is, it doesn't manage to really engage and I found myself not really caring. A Brave New World: Directed by Juan José Campanella. But it just doesn't deliver all these in a good package which it really needed to do in order to get by. It is of vague interest on this level and there were certain parallels that made me think - problem was, I didn't leave the film thinking - I ignore the action onscreen and just starting pondering! Films should make you think - but surely not to the point where your thoughts are actually better than what's on the screen! So yes it says lots of stuff about social classes (which we have - workers and middlemen and top men), consumerism, slogans, media saturation and loss of individualism. Discover the brave new world of Aldous Huxley's classic novel, written in 1932, which prophesied a society which expects maximum pleasure and accepts complete surveillance - no matter what the cost. This is very obvious and is far too simple a point to make in an attempt to translate Huxley. 'Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English.' Chicago Tribune. The plot is roughly the same but the film is keen to point out how this future is so very like the current world that many of us in the West now live in. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites. This version is kind of interesting in an obvious way, but really is not even worthy of sharing the name of the book (and indeed doesn't really stick to it either). For a major film to attempt to bring a major novel to the screen is a brave move, but for a cheap TVM to have a stab at it is even more of a risk. Initially John is taken by the society but gradually he begins to see that the world is not as he wants it. When a chance helicopter accident brings him into contact with one of the `savages', John Cooper, he brings him back as an experiment. However one of the conditioning team, Bernard, can't help but feel if there were any ways of making it better. In society, babies are no longer born, they are designed into social categories to decide their future roles. Khan also delves into the ethical and social implications of AI and GPT, offering thoughtful insights into how we can use these tools to build a more accessible education system for students around the world.In the near future society is managed so that everyone is happy - only a few live on the edges of society as trash. Rather than approaching the sea change brought on by ChatGPT with white-knuckled fear, Khan explains, parents and teachers should embrace AI and adapt to it (while acknowledging its imperfections and limitations), so that every student can complement the work they’re already doing in profoundly new and creative ways, to personalize learning, adapt assessments, and support success in the classroom.īut Brave New Words is not just about technology-it’s about what this technology means for our society, and the practical implications for administrators, guidance counselors, and hiring managers who can harness the power of AI in education and the workplace. In Brave New Words, Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning, offering a road map for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world.Īn pioneer in the world of education technology, Khan examines the ins and outs of these cutting-edge tools and how they will revolutionize the way we learn and teach. Whether we like it or not, the AI revolution is coming to education. “A true pioneer of harnessing the power of technology to help kids learn.” -Bill Gatesįrom the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting, and how we can best harness its power for good.
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