By using telescreens and hidden microphones across the city of Airstrip one, the party was able to monitor its members almost all of the time. In addition, the party employs complicated mechanisms to exert large scale control on economic production and sources of information, and fearsome machinery to inflict torture upon those it deems enemies. The book reveals that technology, which is generally perceived as working toward moral good, can also facilitate the most diabolical evil. One of the most important messages in 1984 is that “language is central importance to human thought because it structures and limits the ideas that one individual is capable of formulating and expressing” (Orwell). With the goal being to remove citizens ability to think anti-party thoughts. In Orwell's 1984, technology has progressed well beyond its time, but only for the purpose of controlling the citizens of Oceania. In the book, as I noted above, cameras and telescreens have been developed for the purpose of surveillance. We are now photographed by cameras in almost every building we go to. Later in the book, the most important use of technology is how the party uses it …show more content…
During that time when people thought they were watching the telescreens in reality big brother was watching them, which shows that wherever you are in the world you are always being watched by the party. “In the world of Oceania, there is no such as thing a progress for the sake of progress there is only power for the sake of power. When technological developments only serve this power, they promote” (Orwell). When they do not, they are backed up. Furthermore, technology is used to keep people away from the outer world and not tell them the real story about the place they are in. Big brother also made them believe in false information about the products they are using and Big Brother is using the real