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Invention of the Model T
The first major implementation of the moving assembly line - the dawn of a new era -
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Modern Day
From 0 AF to our current day -
The Little Reuben Incident
Scientists tried to teach knowledge in sleep, but it did not work. Sleep teaching is banned by governments around the world -
Death of Henry Ford
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The Close Future
Timespan from now to the Nine Years' War -
Invention of Feelies
An advanced form of VR where people can feel sensations as well -
Invention of the Scent Organ
Allows people to hear, smell, and taste sensations -
Personal Helicopters
Popularization of the helicopter as a personal form of transportation and the creation of the Registry of Flying Vehicles -
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The Nine Years' War
Fought with advanced chemical technologies between the West and the East -
Great Economic Collapse
Great Economic Collapse Begins after the conclusion of the Nine Years' War. Causes desensitization to science and the abandonment of God -
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Post War Rebuilding, Development, and Stability
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Economic Revitalization
Promote Economic growth and mass consumption - popularization of the phrase "ending is better than mending" -
Simple Lifer Genocide
The massacre of 800 simple lifers by machine guns at Golders Green, London -
The British Museum Massacre
The slaughter of 2,000 culture enjoyers in the British Museum via mustard gas -
Invention of Ectogenesis
Pfitzner and Kawaguchi developed the complete incubation of a fetus outside of the body -
The World State Takes Over
Ford’s Day celebrations and Community Sings and Solidarity Services - switch to the AF timekeeping system - Cutting of crosses to become T's - Creation of reservations where “Indians” would be placed unaffected by world state control policies - Campaign against the past - Closing of museums, blowing up of historical monuments, suppression of all books published before 2058. -
Global Rocket Travel
The creation of a global system of rockets to traverse the whole world at rapid rates -
Mosquitoes and Flies
Exterminated all mosquitoes and flies using a newly developed toxin that only targets them -
The 1st Great Chemical Upheaval
2,000 pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized to do chemical research -
Phosphorus Recovery
The process of phosphorus recovery is perfected - it can recover 90% of phosphorus from dead bodies -
Soma
Soma is invented, the wonder drug -
Old Age Cured
Discovery of gonadal hormones, transfusion of young blood, magnesium salts, the character remains constant throughout life -
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The First Psychological Manipulation
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Hypnopædia
Hypnopædia is used for the first time for moral teaching -
Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning
Moral sleep teaching put to work on infants -
Spread of State Conditioning Centers
All children are forced to be raised in State Conditioning Centers. Limited parental contact is allowed. -
Desensitization to Death
All children are required to be desensitization to death via Neo-Pavlovian conditioning -
Forced Ectogenesis
Ectogenesis is the only legal way to have a child. The government outlaws pregnancy. -
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The Automation of Life
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The 2nd Great Chemical Upheaval
A new team of 2500 scientists put on the task of automating human reproduction -
The Bokanovsky’s Process
Development of a process that modifies an egg so that a fertile embryo divides several times through a series of arrests in the cell cycle. Alike to cloning -
Podsnap’s Technique
Accelerates the process of “ripening” eggs so that less time is required for the egg to develop after diving through Bokanovsky’s Process -
Abolishment of Parenthood
Abolishment of parenthood implemented, children all come from Bokanovsky’s Process and Podsnap’s Technique -
Development of Decanting
Modification of growing embryos by putting under-oxygenated blood/alcohol in their blood surrogate -
Decanting and Embryo Conditioning
Embryo is modified via methods to fit their assigned caste. They are raised to love the work they have to do -
Birth of the World Controllers
Prominent Alpha Pluses, including Mustapha Mond, are the first to be raised and conditioned -
Social Predestination
Official creation of the Caste system, which is split into Alphas and Betas -
Bureaux of Propaganda and College of Emotional Engineering
Created to control what the caste members are exposed to and to ensure order -
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Finalizing Details of Society
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Completion of the Caste System
Mastery of the caste system and decanting. Selection of world controllers, who would live forever, Mustapha Mond is chosen, a prominent physicist before giving up science to maintain order -
Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons
The creation of Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons in the caste system to do extremely menial labor -
Research on Suppression of Human Desire
Begin development to suppress basic human desires and emotions -
VPS
Introduction of VPS, Violent Passion Surrogate, which is designed to simulate violent tendencies so that they do not occur in reality -
Pregnancy Substitution
Pregnancy Substitutes and Sex hormone chewing gum -
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Physiological Studies
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Cyprus Experiment
The Island of Cyprus was cleared of inhabitants and recolonized with 22,000 alphas; the island fell apart, and 19,000 were killed in the war. Demonstrated that a civilization of Alphas does not function -
Ireland Experiment
The whole island of Ireland was put on a 4-day work-week, the people were in unrest, and there was a large increase in soma consumption - proving leisure was not good -
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Modern Stable Society
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Pilkington's Process
Develops a method to accelerate growth so that individuals that are mature at an earlier age without a loss of functionality -
Present Day
The time period where Brave New World takes place