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From Orwell v. Huxley: Battle of the Forecasters by Derek Hopper
Boiled down to its essence, Orwell’s vision of the future was one in which the government tightly controlled the flow of information, enabling it to control the thoughts of its population. Huxley’s future was one in which there was arguably too much information – most of it inane – thereby distracting the population from what was really going on.