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Word: hypnopaedia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long before Novelist AldousHuxley conceived of a Brave New World where schoolkids could learn their lessons through "hypnopaedia" (sleep-teaching), a less talented novelist wrote a book with a similar idea. It never broke into print: New York publishers thought it too badly written and too fantastic. In the novel, an ambitious man made himself ruler of the world by inventing a "cerebrograph" (mind-writer), which taught people while they slept. Author Max Sherover abandoned the novel, but not the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learn While You Sleep | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...equivalents of soma and hypnopaedia [the happy-making drugs in Brave New World] and [a] scientific caste system are probably not more than three or four generations away. Nor does the sexual promiscuity of Brave New World seem so very distant. In a few years, no doubt, marriage licenses will be sold like dog licenses, good for a period of twelve months. . . . Dictator[s] will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile [people] to the servitude which is their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New World Reconsidered | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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