The social "experient" of John and Linda is very interesting. To see how we as humans, no matter how old and pure we may be, cave into technology and the immediate gratification of technology just blows my mind. It is also interesting to see how they shed their ways, not keeping in what they believe. It is much like what Karl Marx told us, saying that we keep with what the economy leads us to. The upper class in A Brave New World also dictates how others act, showing what they can know and leaving the rest of the classes out, in partial ways. Who do you know that wouldn't conform to the beliefs of the society they live in? Who wants to be a total outcast? Karl Marx pretty much was, and that is how he broke from conformity. You must relate to those you live with or interact with or interaction become a struggle and inevidably will not happen. John and Linda stood no chance, because either they were put on a pedistal for being different, like John in London, or conform to it, like Linda. Helmholtz and Bernard, in the end, see this and are exiled for bringing about change with the riot. They knew they could not live there anymore, for thier ideals in their minds were bigger than the acceptence that they felt through the society. They TRUELY realized that they were living in a wrong society, but it took them seeing and outside perspective to realize it. If we all are thrown into a technilogicly indiverse world, we will be living in the way that these people do. Getting sucked up into one thing is not uncommon. The iPod relation works well here. Almost every high schooler has one, not saying they are not a good product, but for the reason that they are a symbol of acceptence to many, and also an easily relateable topic of discussion. It makes inclussion in society easier, while strengthening the conformity of society. Acceptence is a driving factor in our everyday lives, and technology only makes it that much more complicated with faster and more effcient things that everyone wants because they show status, the upper classes possesions, and in our society, that will make you look important, screw love, screw feelings, screw helping others, it's all about you and yourself and who comes next and who takes over and who makes what and what you look like to the world, which is the central theme in BNW.