Big Brother Vs 1984

This is the new world with all the technology around our everyday lives. We are capable of doing so many things due to the availability of products that are constantly being renewed and produced. Our technology grows on every single day with newer and better communication possibilities. Orwellian technology was only the beginning to all the technology we have now. In fact, our technology is far more efficient and gives the government a deeper view of our everyday lives than what Big Brother saw in 1984. The technology is not parallel to Orwell’s, it was only the starting point to the technology boom and now a way better system to violate people’s privacy. In 1984, Big Brother only had the telescreen and little kids spying on the adults to keep everyone in check. It resembles only the basic part of what the government now does to us without moving more than just a couple of finger movements. People live off of the entertainment from absolutely anything on the internet. The smart phones we have today are just like little telescreens that we can’t put down, without thinking that anything we do is just like the telescreen in 1984. “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that is made above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it” Orwell (3). This shows how sensitive the telescreen were in the story but …show more content…
Since they did not do much, they were mostly used to intimidate, as Orwell describes in his book “ A helicopter skimmed down between the roofs … It was the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows. The patrols didn’t matter, only the thought police mattered.” Orwell (2). Literally everything that the drones or telescreens did in 1984 are what our cell phones and electronic devices do for the government. We don’t fear what we put on the internet because we believe that only who we let see could see but that was not what a fact, only a