Monday, May 20, 2019

1984 – Technology in Todays Soceity

Not many people argon fans of being excessively superintend and observed. From an 11 year old boy being observed in the park by his grandparents, to a student sitting in class being observed by the teacher during examination. Knowing that you are constantly under surveillance can be actually intimidating. Right through history, the intensity of politics regulations consecrate altered from first base down to sky-scraping. The novel 1984, written by George Orwell consistent of a very dictatorial politics.In this fictional commentary novel, George Orwell predicts the prox where technology and the power given to the government go away reduce privacy in everyones day to day life. Todays society is majorly squeeze by the rapid development of technology in the novel George Orwell had used technology as an ideal of lack of privacy. To begin with, our march on technology has reached such an extent that it is very straightforward for the government to throw out everything about us from our past including, our previous vacation, were we live, where we attended school or even closing curtain time we made a purchase through our debit or credit.To gain access into a persons life the government has issued every citizen a social insurance number, this card contains a persons entire record of everything that they have done in the country. This is related to what George Orwell had expressed in his novel, the government in the novel is being referred to the big brother. In the novel the big brother unploughed watch over every step that was done by the humans, there was even a bless which said big brother is watching you, this is the same as our government now since most things we do are being watched or even listened to.Another example of this would be the use of telescreens in the novel. The telescreens previewed everybodys room in the building therefore if any movement or discussion passage on will not be private, Any sound Winston made, above the level of a ve ry low whisper, would be picked up by it. This is now similar to todays surveillance cameras although this novel was written in 1948 the first surveillance camera had been invented in 1965. Since then the world had become more advanced than ever before. Cameras are now put up almost everywhere in business offices, doohickey store, apartment buildings, intersections, even all age schools.In the novel the author essentially points out that the time to come will hold no privacy and telescreens. phone calls, emails, texting are examples of telescreens since they can be accessed by the government authorities anytime. In conclusion, the novel 1984, is a fiction although what George Orwell tried illustrating was us humans are going head over heel with technology which is giving the government power. Some events that occurred in his novel have actually accrued and while he was writing this novel it was all a prediction for the future because some things he mentioned did not exist in that t ime period.

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