Surveillance technology always ends up being used against those citizens who live on the margins – the poor,the mentally ill and those who dissent politically.
Was George Orwell inspired by his experiences in the Spanish Civil war to write Nineteen Eighty-Four?
Not even in his darkest and deepest imaginings,the sum of all his fears,could Orwell conceive that every single person could be all-consumed with ideological fury.
A Sydney University expert on George Orwell marks the 70th birthday of the novel that changed our language and the way we see our world.