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1984 by George Orwell
- japanoise 7y ago1984 is a great book, but I wish more who invoke it had read it or understood it.
- smitty1e 7y agoWhat's disturbing is that the dystopian vision is slowly oozing our way from the bottom up, not so much the top down.
- dudul 7y agoSame. And I only see it referenced to talk about mass surveillance, while at least to me, it wasn't even the most frightening part of the novel. The erasure of History, the formation of Newspeak, or the indoctrination of children were way more terrifying.
- rahuldottech 7y agoEven if you don't want to read the book, the Wikipedia articles on it and its concepts are fantastic reads: Main article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four Themes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Themes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Themes ------ More links to articles on concepts from the book: Big Brother: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(Nineteen_Eighty-F... Doublethink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink Thought Crime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime Newspeak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak Telescreen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen (Several more linked in the main article) ------ It's easy to draw parallels between the concepts of the novel and the state of the world today, and technology plays a huge part. It's incredible. And frightening. For instance, you can, to an extent, equate IoT and smart home devices with Telescreens. It's not hard to get access to these, and suddenly, you have a window into the most intimate parts of someone's life. Keep in mind, none of this is regulated. In many lesser developed countries, people are persecuted/prosecuted for their beliefs and opinions: Thoughtcrime. The Chinese government is essentially Big Brother, what with constant surveillance, authoritarianism, complete lack of privacy and people being given "social scores" by computers that analyse their actions, and these scores deciding what they are and aren't allowed to do. Newspeak: Seen in many, many nations, but for example, concentration camps being called "re-education camps" in China. Here's a list of real-life examples: http://mattjennissen1.weebly.com/uploads/7/1/0/7/7107262/real_life_doublespeak.pdf http://mattjennissen1.weebly.com/uploads/7/1/0/7/7107262/rea... And so on...
- rahuldottech 7y agoPDF of the novel: https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/1984.pdf https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/1984.pdf Epub, Mobi: https://www.planetebook.com/1984/ https://www.planetebook.com/1984/ Audiobook: https://archive.org/details/George-Orwell-1984-Audio-book https://archive.org/details/George-Orwell-1984-Audio-book