Good question for
the discussion board! :)
On one hand I think that this society is possible and
that perhapshad it right on the money when he created the book without fully realizing the
possibilities. The government has a lot more power over its people than it did in the 1940s and
the US government continues to progress in that direction. With the advancements made in
technology it's possible to have a Big Brother type society. There is hardly a place on the
planet left that a person can go and not be found. Computers, GPS, the Internet, this age of
information makes it easy to be watched. If people continue to value ignorance over intelligence
and give the government too much power then I thinkis a probability in our future. People today
would rather someone else think and do for them and with everything being "PC" all the
time our speech is being diminished as well, just like the creation of Newspeak.
On the flip side of the coin because we have so much technology it is
difficult to know all, all of the time. If people start to take more responsibility for what
they do, we might be able to avoid it.
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