One day you’re in your house enjoying some quality time with your friends and family and you realize that the computer in the room has been watching and recording everything you and your family and friends have done or said. Our technology today is terrifyingly similar to that of Orwell’s vision in “1984”. Society today needs to realize how our technology is being used as it is used in big brother’s society to spy and record their people.
Our society has many things that allow our government to watch us some,for example, would be the Smartphone, tablet, and other devices and in 1984 they have a few things that also allow their government to watch them. 1984 is a novel written by George Orwell and in that novel he tells us of a society in which they are ruled and have no rights but a lot of the people don’t even notice that. in his novel Orwell say’s “ The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard”. In his novel they have an item called the telescreen which allows the Thought police, the police everyone is terrified of, to watch
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The intended audience is a post WWII population who feared total government control Orwell believes that 1984 is a book about the future and that this was going to happen in the future because of how they are being treated and that the government will overthrow us from our freedom.Many writers have pointed out similarities between the modern world and the world of 1984 such as in the articles for “That No Phone.That’s My Tracker” and “ Npr:National Public