Brave New World
In the visionary book written in 1932, Aldous Huxley imagined a company that uses genetics and cloning for the conditioning and control individuals.
In this future society, all children are conceived in test tubes. They are genetically conditioned to belong to one of five categories of population. The smarter the more stupid: the Alpha (the elite), betas (performers) the Gammas (junior staff), Deltas and Epsilon (for heavy work). The "Brave New World" also describes what would be the perfect dictatorship: a dictatorship that would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitude "...
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