brave new world

Meaning

Noun

• A better, often utopian (future) world.
• A terrible, often oppressive or dystopian world.

Origin

• From the title of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, although in "The Tempest," act 5, scene 1:
• : How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / That has such people in't!