Two centuries later, this “Panopticon” concept was made to apply not just in the walls of prison but was already applied to the society. It was Michel Foucault in 1977 who argued that the mechanism and principles used to control prisoners in Bentham’s Panopticon could be similarly applied to citizens throughout society. Orwell also explained that idea in detail by stating that: “Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police.”
When the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, Orwell’s tale seemed far-fetched and futuristic films from recent years such as “Minority Report” and “Gattaca” still appeared fanciful. However, the concepts