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Bye-bye, big brother. (how George Orwell's '1984' failed to predict the blessings of telecommunications technology)

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From: National Review
Date: 19940815
Author:Huber, Peter

Orwell's vision of the future, that was created in 1948, did not recognize the communication choices and alternatives that technology would provide. In fact, the opposite has happened. The flow of information and information services cannot be controlled by monopolies or a central government.

|From the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - Greetings!" These words were written in 1948 by a lonely, iconoclastic genius of English letters. He was 44 years old and was dying of tuberculosis. He chose as the title of his book the year in which he wrote it, with the last two digits ...

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