Technology In 1984

1984: How We Are Living in the Beginning of it All In the book 1984 they use technologies that we would hope to never experience. At the end of it all and a few moments into thinking, we are becoming this society that is focused around 24/7 monitoring and complete power. Telescreens, Room 101, Memory Hole, and Newspeak, what’s the difference with our society today? Security Cameras, Interrogation rooms, Paper shredders, and text lingo. There’s not too much of a difference. Sixty seven years later and this book is finally coming true. With each technological advance our society makes it’s getting more similar to the brainwashed society of Oceania. The book shows a society living with a monarchy power, the monarchy is of course, none other

Unless you were a person like Winston and you knew how everything was being changed. Newspeak is where they changed the words and made them less complex. This quote explains it, “Take ‘good,’ for instance. If you have a word like ‘good,’ what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well – better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of ‘good,’ what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like ‘excellent’ and ‘splendid’ and all the rest of them? ‘Plusgood’ covers the meaning or ‘doubleplusgood’ if you want something stronger still.” (Orwell 23) They really think that they’re just beating around the bush and making things easier on them but they’re just dumbing themselves down. The party of Big Brother has created a society of zombies who follow him around and never question a thing. The entire book is about technology. You can’t argue how the technology shapes the book, because it is the book. Ways where Room 101, telescreens, newspeak, and memory holes had shaped a new society and it showed how a person has to run around and hide who he really is. The book explains how Winston has been shaped by the technology and who people have become. Upon that argument, there’s argument of whether or not our society has become that of 1984. Our society is the beginning of it