1961: Aldous Huxley on the power of TECHNOLOGY! | In Conversation | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive

Thank God Jonathon Ross or Graham Norton weren't the interviewers back then.

Huxley was controlled opposition.
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Sense, of, ? ....rather than being in control of, !!!. This is true today.

Sabbath was made for man, man was not not made for the Sabbath

I don't know who was the originator of this phrase but it is a marvellous use of language 👍😉

There doesn’t seem to be a lot of heroes or characters around anymore, people are very docile and homogenised seemingly.

He made a lot of sense. But I am glad that nobody today would try to speak English in that ridiculous synthetic accent and expect to be taken seriously.

Leave aside the fact that we have far fewer humans of his stature in 2024 available for interviews - in any field. This is how a discussion/interview should be. Ask questions, probe slightly, but ultimately allow the guest to expand at their leisure. No pressure, no facile BS, no interruptions, no media company or societal agenda to push on people. Oh what we have lost in the last few decades.

Enoch Powell predicted the future too, rivers of blood.

Spot on ! Uhhh, hello AI ?

The irony this is at a BBC channel...

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This interviewer clearly was not ready to understand what Huxley was saying. Few were at the time. He was warning about a general, universal sickness of post-industrial civilization and all this guy could ask was "but the Russians are worse tho, right?"

Curious fact: these two people died of cancer.

I see no difference between totarilytism and today's "democracy". It's all just a big bunch of lies, like social experiments. Besides that all is just a machine of Capitalism. Just a thing to distract ideas, meanings and feelings.

Man makes technology, not the technology makes man. In pogressive, sustainable, human friendly and environmental friendly democratic establishment, man makes and masters technology for pogressive, humanitarian and developed human civilisation but in an authoratarian establishment, man makes technology for the benifit, profit and power of just a particular section of society, for hypocrisy and for expansionism. Science of divisiveness and science for the divisive society, science of destructions and devastations and science for demolitions, science of race theory, science for hypocrisy, science for the authoritarianism, science for dictatorships, science for the pogress of ideals, duals and supernaturals, science for the genocides and genocidal powers, science for the autocracy and for the autocrats, science for Greed over necessities, needs, demands and profits, science for the destruction of human society and nature, science for the degradation of morality, science for the degradation of mental and physical status, science for the degradation society and culture, science for the pollution of environment, innocent minds and human society must be avoided, disregarded, discarded and restricted. Develop, adopt, culture and cultivate science for betterment of humanity, for prosperous, pogressive and humanitarian human civilisation.

ULEZ cameras.

a warning against ai

Are there great men like these anymore? So much wisdom.

The earth is flat and stationary, space is fake.

Nothing wrong with technology a pencil is technology is who controls it and if it can be controlled. No to tyranny.

The intelligence of old interviews to nowadays. I am trying to only watch this stuff or stick to my own theories. Not the drivel people become rich idols these days.

His final book, The Island, is far more important.

"Man is the victim of his own technology, not in control of it."
We can amend Aldous Huxley's view to suggest that 'humans are victims to those humans who exploit the idea of subjugated governance through our encroaching and controllable technology'.

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Liked his LSD, good man!

It's incredible how long that men like this can take to say absolutely nothing.

Amazing how good Huxley was at predicting the future.

This is amaaaaazing

He namedrops Ellul, that would be Jacques Ellul, who wrote famous books about propaganda and susceptibillty to it, for those wot want to know more.

Brave New World has affected me the in way a lot of people talk about 1984. This is fabulous, thank you

I suppose this has been recorded off a 405-line broadcast - looks quite rough. But great to watch nonetheless.

Am reminded of the old newspaper cartoon of a child watching a live broadcast, on TV, of a sunset.
Behind the child is a window, from which we can see the actual sunset.

This guy has no clue what he wants. That's what trying to be religious, and trying to sound intelligent at the same time sounds like. He has no clue what the answer is, as long as it's definitely not technology. The guy interviewing him even asked, "Do you have a CLEAR answer?" And, no he didn't.
He obviously doesn't realize that the only way for him to get his voice heard, by a larger number of people, is through technology. Even with how many people he reached with that technology, it wasn't anywhere near the amount of people needed to change the world. He didn't have enough technology to do what he wanted.
So, he's using technology to serve him, trough telecommunications. Yet he wasn't serving any purpose for the technology. Funny how that worked. I'm glad technology outlived this fool, who was stuck on religion as a subject while trying to determine the usefulness of technology. I wish I could go back in time, to tell him not to worry because religious freaks are all over the technology he feared. Unfortunately they can't agree on most topics, making religious people the problem, not the technology.

Ancient Proverb: 'Necessity is the mother of invention' , 21st Century Proverb 'Greed is the mother of invention and all other useless crap'

Great Aldus Huxley - was in mind only as a name -never had any idea about his appearance ...several times I had taken his great book 'Time must have a stop ' - but never opened it ...and now I have seen this great thinker 'with my own eyes ' ...but do not know what he 'thinks ' ....and besides , I would imagine him as chewing betel nuts and leaf while talking ....grateful to see Aldus Huxley ...about whom I will not know much ...