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This episode of PBS’s animated serial Blank on Blank features an well excerpt from a 1950 interview amongst the Britain author Aldous Huxley yesteryear the U.S. of America reporter Mike Wallace. Using his landmark dystopian novel Brave New World (1932) as a starting point, Huxley warns of the potential for dictators together with would-be dictators to exploit emerging technologies to create propaganda that ‘bypasses the rational side of man’ together with causes ‘him [to] genuinely dearest his slavery’. Although inwards 2018 around of Huxley’s predictions examine to a greater extent than prescient than others, his cautionary message most the potential dangers of novel forms of volume media stands, both every bit a snapshot of the post-Second World War era together with every bit a reflection on modern threats to republic posed yesteryear the internet, together with social media inwards particular....MORE (video)