Blasphemy! :D
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@wilbanks even though 1984 is coming true?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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And yet, most everyone has read 1984. It colors people's thinking about tech & surveillance despite being obviously a fairly wrong model.
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Orwell's essays most applicable to digital tech isn't 1984; it's his reflections on Gandhi and his piece on nuclear weapons.
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Google Home/Amazon Echo + NSA -> home surveillance/thought crime. Putin + Trump = we are always at war with…
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Totally agree on Orwell. Homage to Catalonia and Lion and the Unicorn are vastly more relevant than 1984.
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funny, I've read all that except 1984, not sure why. For fascism primer, read Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd novels.
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Yes, 1984 is clunky authoritarianism which did not truly survive to the 21st century in a widespread manner.
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Also Gilliam's "Brazil"
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