Surveillance: You’d Better Chose Wisely
I’ve often joked that George Orwell’s novel 1984 was meant to be a warning, not an instruction manual. And yet every day the U.S. marches closer and closer to making Orwell’s dystopian nightmare a reality. Nobody wants this. So, why is it happening?...
Government Eyes Are Watching You: We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State
First broadcast in America 50 years ago, The Prisoner—a dystopian television series described as “James Bond meets George Orwell filtered through Franz Kafka”—confronted societal themes that are still relevant today: the rise of a police state, the freedom of the...
Big Brother Is Still Watching You: Don’t Fall for the NSA’s Latest Ploy
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” -George Orwell, 1984 Supposedly the National Security Administration is going to stop collecting...