brave new world
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[edit] Etymology
From the title of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, which is in turn a reference to a line from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (first performed around 1611).
[edit] Noun
brave new world (plural brave new worlds)
- An ambitious, often utopian, vision of the future.
- 1999, Helen Kelly-Holmes, European Television Discourse in Transition[1], ISBN 1853594628, page 6:
- Will digital broadcasting, 'mega-channel-land', change everything or nothing? Will it be a brave new world, or simply more of the same?
- 1999, Helen Kelly-Holmes, European Television Discourse in Transition[1], ISBN 1853594628, page 6:
- A significant change for the worse.
- 2005, Will Watson, “The Ethics of Living American Primacy”, in Allan Eickelman et al. editor, Justice and Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism and Cultural Transformation[2], ISBN 0754645460, page 103:
- In this brave new world, the IMF and other Western financial institutions dictated radical free trade "shock treatment" to both developing nations and the former USSR ...
- 2005, Will Watson, “The Ethics of Living American Primacy”, in Allan Eickelman et al. editor, Justice and Violence: Political Violence, Pacifism and Cultural Transformation[2], ISBN 0754645460, page 103:
