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A 6 page paper highlighting the many ways in which Orwell's novel successfully predicted the world of today. It also explains how Orwell was able to do this so accurately, and even discusses some points which did not come true. Bibliography lists seven sources including Orwell's book.
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ability to predict the future, I suggest that Orwell was instead a careful and insightful student of history and current events, and that he was merely carrying the potentialities he
saw around him out to their logical, if terrifying, conclusions. There are certainly many uncanny correspondences. For instance, the ubiquitous "telescreen" -- a combination propaganda-spewing and monitoring device -- could
certainly be possible given the Internet technology we have today. Orwells "telescreen" was a wall-mounted unit which could simultaneously play music, broadcast "news", and watch the activities of everyone in
every room in which a telescreen was installed. An Internet-capable computer today can do these same things, the difference being only the degree to which we allow it to. For
instance, it is possible to have two-way video teleconferencing via the Internet, which means that if I can sit at my computer and see you speaking to me as you
sit at yours, I can certainly look past you to see activities going on in the room behind you. And if my computer is equipped with a sound card, I
can receive music files and play them, and I can receive and play multimedia news transmissions as well. This means that theoretically, I could dispense with my television set,
radio, and telephone, and substitute my computer for every use to which I put my TV, phone, and radio now. If I choose to have my computer turned on twenty-four
hours a day, and if I had a terminal in every room so that every room would be visible to the screen (like a closed-circuit television monitoring system), it would
be completely within the realm of todays technology to have an Orwellian "telescreen" system. How could Orwell have known this? Its really relatively simple. The radio had been a common
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