How Does Our Society Turn Us Into 1984

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No Factor In Our Society Will Turn Us Into 1984
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of pathological criminal”(Albert Einstein). As you are well aware our society is constantly advancing in technology and its purpose for the benefits of the people and also for security matters. Technology such as security cameras are used in today's society as a way to protect ourselves from outside dangers as explained by authors Austin Carr and Jennifer Carlile. Unlike Orwell's society of 1984, where technology such as telescreens has progressed to protect the Party from being overthrown. Our world of technology is not becoming like the world of 1984 because we have a judicial system to protect us privacy and historical knowledge.
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For instance, when Winston was talking about their government it says, “This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least twenty-five years in a forced labor camp”(Orwell 3). No laws in their society,which makes everything “legal” but if you do something the government does not like there is no judicial system to prevent you from being in a work camp for five years. Technology is used to watch everything that you do so if the government sees something they don’t like then they can vaporize you. In the world of Oceania, if there were laws, everything would be different but since there are no laws people have a sense of freedom. The people should feel like they are free, but having no laws keeps them captive, making them unable to do anything that the government would not like. However, in our world of today people have historical knowledge from not only history, but from your life as author Carlile says, “It may help in securing convictions, but it doesn’t actually