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[Unregistered]

This book is not making a statement on how we should not be accounted for, but rather is warning us to never stop thinking freely. If we think freely, write freely, speak freely, and can freely decide what we do with our lives it doesn't matter if anyone sees our every move or hears our every word because in no way does that keep us from being free. This book notes the negative effects of having a lack of privacy, but privacy is not the main point.

[Dan]

You're comment that "i wonder if people realise how close we actually are" is really rather interesting and amusing. When I first read 1984 back in the early 1960s, everyone thought the same thing. However, I would agree with you that it seems to be coming closer and closer, particularly since 9/11. However, even before that, government was toying with the idea of chips, similar to what they put in the shoulders of pets, to identify people. With those, they could track you from a satellite in space. As time marches on and people demand more government social programs, government will respond with those programs, but a side effect is also more government control.

[john]

one of my favourite books of all time. i wonder if people realise how close we actually are(mobile phones knowing where we are all the time, security cameras following our every move,even computers telling us where we logged on to and when). and then the propaganda telling us of what will happen if we dont toe the party line. it scares me to think of what will happen when our children and grandchildren are around. what is scarier is that politicial correctness is partially responsible due to the fact that people are now afraid to say or due certain things for fear that they will upset people. im all for being kind but im also for being yourself,something we are slowly but surely losing. things have to change or we will be looking at 1984 as a history reference.