It could come true

[Alex Roper]

Hah, thats the amusing part. We don't know IF there is already a big brother. I see liberty in America as of this writing as something of an inequality. We are more free certainly than Winston is; yet are we truely living in a completly free society?<br><br>If anyone is interested in further reading; Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley are highly recommended, as is We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (I prefer the Mira Ginsburg translation)<br><br>Finally, a conundrum: Can a human society ever be free?

[Glen Chapman]

Verne was not laughed at any time in his writing career , nor did he ever write about man walking on the moon. In his story, the travellers orbited the moon then returned to Earth. H.G Wells however did get some people onto thesurface

[Unregistered]

I am a senior in high school and just recently our class was required to read 1984. I agree with this comment 100%. Our teacher assigned an essay on how Orwell's 1984, compares to 2002, and this comment was right on what I was writing about.

[Jérémy]

Some people, after reading 1984, may laugh and say: "It's only a book. It's fiction. None of this will ever happen." Oddly enough, Jules Vernes' writings were ridiculed when he wrote that humans would one day walk on the moon. He turned out to be right. We have to be on the lookout. Big Brother could become a reality. And as far as I can tell, it's on its way. Already, the press is being filtered, so we only get the info they want us to know. Who "they" are, I don't know. From hidden cameras, the next step could be telescreens. When you think hard about it, our world isn't very different from the world in "1984".