Big Brother or a Society Protecting Itself?

Into The Cyber Age?

So we are probably all aware that our cookies are being tracked, and that we are continually being assessed for our behaviour and even for our location. But when this moves to our face being detected as we walk down the street, and then linked to our on-line behaviour, it becomes scary. The extreme end is that we end up with a police state where we are watched for everything that we do, just in case are ever involved in a crime, or commit one.

So did George Orwell actually predict the future of the Cyber Age with his 1984 book?

In his book, George projected a state which observed its citizens, and where there was no hiding place. He could see a time of TVs on the wall which could talk to you, and for the citizens to be watched for everything that they did. Perhaps he could see a world where our Cloud Service providers … Google .. Facebook … and so on … are continually monitoring our activities?

Obviously, in 1948, when he published it, the use of technology was not quite developed as it is now, but…