Perhaps Orwell couldn't envision the technological capability that would allow monitoring of the entire population. Plus he hadn't seen the soft revolutions th

Perhaps Orwell couldn't envision the technological capability that would allow monitoring of the entire population. Plus he hadn't seen the soft revolutions that occurred in the former Soviet Block, driven by masses of common people. In the 40's, with the exception of Germany and Italy, authoritarian regimes were seemingly invincible.