The book ‘1984’ was written by George Orwell in 1949. In the book, Big Brother was always watching everyone and what they are doing. This is like today’s society but instead of Big Brother watching the people of Oceania, the government is watching us. I believe our technology is taking us closer to the world of Big Brother for many reasons. One way that the government can watch us is by our mobile devices. Our mobile devices are used as tracking devices more than they are used to make phone calls. As mentioned in the article That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker, “The device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone-guess again. It is a tracking device that happens to make phone calls” (Maass and Rajagopalan). Maass and Rajagopalan think that a cellphone is more than a cellphone because it can do much more than we think. They say that a cellphone should not be called a cellphone because it is used to track people, not to make phone calls. Our government knows more about us than we think they do. The article states, “Thanks to the explosion of GPS technology and smartphone apps, these devices are also taking note on what we buy, where and when we buy it, how much money we have in the bank, whom we text and e-mail, what …show more content…
That quote is everywhere in Oceania so people know that Big Brother is watching everything they do. Another quote mentioned in the book is, “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself” (Orwell). This quote is significant because it shows that everyone is being tracked and Big Brother will find out everything about you. Also, that quote is important because the people in Oceania know that they are always being tracked and that they cannot have a sense of individualism due to the role Big Brother. This is like our society today because we cannot hide anything from our government because they will figure everything out about