Yep, Huxley won the argument how humanity will defeat itself.

At least as far as we have seen the second innovation revolution play out:

The digital revolution.

What Orwell feared, what Huxley feared...

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books.

What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.

Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information.

Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.

Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us.

Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.

Orwell feared we would become a captive culture.

Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with an infinite diarrhea of empty distractions.

In Orwell's 1984 people are controlled by inflicting pain.

In Huxley's Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.

In short:

Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us.

Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

Credits to:

"Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman

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Ok, and now what?

We are just beginning to understand what the third innovation revolution will do to us:

The genetic revolution.

So may God help us!

That's a cruel joke ;-)