I think you are misreading 1984 as a warning about technology. The book was finished in 1948, when governments were perfectly capable of turning fascist and ex

I think you are misreading 1984 as a warning about technology. The book was finished in 1948, when governments were perfectly capable of turning fascist and exterminating millions of people with 1940s era technology. Orwell also wrote a famous book about talking farm animals doing the same sorts of things.