"Brave New World" vs "1984"

In "Conclusion: The Two Futures" from The End of Utopia, the novels Brave New World and 1984 are discussed and compared as to which would be more probable to occur in today's society. I have to side with the author and say that Brave New World is a more likely utopia, or dystopia for the world we live in now. I know I personally would go along more with a society who rewarded me for nothing than a society that punished me for everything, and I like to think I'm among the majority in that opinion. The article mentions that "more than any other novel of its type, Brave New World is continuing to approximate the social and political whole truth as the present turns into the future almost one might say to the point when this novel will express the whole truth of a lamentably truth-empoverished time". In other words, this novel, more so than other dystopia novels-including 1984- speaks to a future that is increasingly approaching until a point where the world predicted by Huxley could come true. "Test tube babies" are already increasingly popular, not to the point where they are manufactured in bulk and not raised by parents, however in vitro fertilization shows the potential for that to develop. The world Huxley envisioned is not only more likely to happen, but more efficient. As opposed to Orwell's world, which the article points out is "simply not efficient and all other things being equal efficiency leads to stability as inefficiency leads away from it". 1984 has too many opprotunities for failure within its system, regardless of the extraordinary cautions the government put into place. The majority of the population consists of a subclass, the proles. While the proles did not realize their power in the novel, the potential for an overthrow by them is still very plausible with the society they live in. Also, the practice of releasing "brainwashed" prisoners back into society is on that lacks efficiency. A potential lies in that practice for a person that still believes everything they used to before "Room 101" to go back into society with the knowledge of where they went wrong before and start rebelling all over again. Huxley sent his rebells off to Iceland, where they could think freely without influencing anyone else. Being high in society in Brave New World, one receives endless pleasures, and those who are low in society were born with out the understanding or really knowing their position. Being high in society in 1984 still holds the same fears and worries that those low in society have, and those low in society can't even think about the fact that they are low without commiting "thought-crime". The article states "the power of pleasure has the advantage of being more stabilizing", which is evidenced through the more effective government put in place in Huxley's Brave New World.