Technology is one of the most common things in modern society today. It is common because so many people and businesses use technology to benefit themselves. While being a major benefit some can use it to degrade the people around them. The novel 1984 written by George Orwell is about a country that has been taken over by technology, and how it has started to brainwash people. In today's society technology hasn't completely taken over yet, but at the rate it is going technology may be the only thing left on this planet in the end. Yes, people invented technology, but it can be invented to take over the entire world in the blink of an eye. George Orwell wrote 1984 in a very unique manner. He wrote that novel in 1949 which is 35 years before the year of 1984. The novel involved technology all throughout it. In 1984 there is the main character named Winston Smith. He works in a department called the Ministry of Truth where he is to correct the past to …show more content…
They cannot truly be themselves because of technology, and they will never be able to. There is an article written by Norman Solomon, and the title of this article is “News media boldly tread narrow terrain.” In this article Solomon talks about how in 1994 the society was just about the same as the novel 1984. In his exact words he says
“In 1984 George Orwell wrote about the conditioned reflex of "stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical" to prevailing ideology "and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction." Today's dominant news media are good at repeatedly covering the same ground, carefully avoiding much exploration beyond the sanctioned