brave new worlds

Brave new worlds, the plural of brave new world, refers to imagined or actual situations representing radical departures from the familiar, often with mixed connotations of promise and peril.

The phrase originates from Shakespeare's *The Tempest* but gained its modern ironic edge from Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel.

When someone speaks of brave new worlds, they typically gesture at transformative possibilities—technological, social, political—while hinting that such transformations may carry hidden costs or unforeseen consequences.