It changed a lot. It turned into a communist wet drram by the end, which was far more hopeful than the book seemed to take things.
The Soma was basically a magic addiction drug without the major side effects of addiction.
Ill need to read the book someday.
The book really is great. I've always felt that, between the two of them, Huxley and Orwell got it right. The dystopian future that were living in is like a remix of both.
I hear its also mixed with Anthem too. Nietzsche's Last Man has something to it.
Futurism wrote an article about how implants were already starting to cause identity based psychosis which sounds eerily similar to Cyberpunks Cyberpsychosis.
