In what ways does the Party employ technology? Another version of the question: How does technology affect the Partys ability to control its...

I believe the
Party uses technology mainly as a way to control its citizens.  It does this by using technology
for surveillance and for propaganda.

The main image of technology in
is, to me, the television screen.  These screens are two-way things that
allow some one to watch everyone who has a screen all the time.  We also know that the Party can
plant microphones in various places.  If you never knew when the Party was watching you or
listening to you, I would think that would control you a lot.

The Party also
uses the screens and movies for propaganda.  It uses them, for example, in the Two Minutes
Hate.  This sort of use affects the way people think.  That helps the Party control them as
well.