The government is currently tracking our movements through surveillance and using modern technology to profile and record citizens. Our bureaucracy is using technology such as CCTV’s(closed circuit television) to track our behavior in real life and manipulating social media in order to to track our movements on the internet. This constant surveying is similar to the paranoid world of 1984. Author George Orwell expressed his worry for what the world will become in his classic novel, 1984. In the novel technology runs society and freedom of speech, or even thought, is against the law With telescreens watching citizens every move they are petrified to do anything wrong, and our society is taking the first steps to resembling this powerless world.
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For example, the main character, Winston, lives in a home with a telescreen that tracks his movements and what he says, “Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard“(Orwell 3). Citizens of 1984 are tracked in their homes by devices called telescreens. The telescreen is a device placed in homes by the government with the purpose of listening and watching all citizens. This is a crucial part of 1984 because it proves that Winston and other innocent citizens right to privacy in his/her own home is being invaded by the government. Similar to the telescreen from the novel, Amazon has created a device that records everything you say within your own home, “That little talking cylinder is always listening to you. And not just listening, but recording and saving many of the things you say”(Tim Moynihan Wired). The device being described in the quote is called ‘Echo’ or ‘Alexa’ and is a device designed to help users live a more convenient life through voice assistance, but it also records and stores information on its users. This relates to 1984 because both the telescreens and the Amazon Echo invade people’s privacy within their very own homes. People should be concerned about this similarity …show more content…
In the novel Winston’s only way of having some sense of privacy is to hide in the corner of his home, “For some reason the telescreen in the living-room was in an unusual position. Instead of being placed, as was normal, in the end wall, where it could command the whole room, it was in the longer wall, opposite the window….By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen…”(Orwell 5). Winston is forced to hide inside his own home due to the government's constant monitoring. The government tracks citizens movements in order to look for suspicious activity. This is a crucial part of 1984 because its citizens have become complacent about the fact that they have no privacy and almost no basic rights, which is what our world will turn into if we let surveillance continue on its current path. For example, in an article that discusses the need for security the author describes the extreme surveillance in London as, “...impossible to avoid all of the 96 cameras at Heathrow airport, 1,800 in train stations, 6,000 on the London Underground, 260 around parliament, 230 used for license plate recognition in city center, and the dozens surveying West End streets”(Carlile 3). Carlile is describing the amount of surveillance that is present in London. This connects back to 1984 because our society is being constantly watched no matter
For example, the main character, Winston, lives in a home with a telescreen that tracks his movements and what he says, “Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard“(Orwell 3). Citizens of 1984 are tracked in their homes by devices called telescreens. The telescreen is a device placed in homes by the government with the purpose of listening and watching all citizens. This is a crucial part of 1984 because it proves that Winston and other innocent citizens right to privacy in his/her own home is being invaded by the government. Similar to the telescreen from the novel, Amazon has created a device that records everything you say within your own home, “That little talking cylinder is always listening to you. And not just listening, but recording and saving many of the things you say”(Tim Moynihan Wired). The device being described in the quote is called ‘Echo’ or ‘Alexa’ and is a device designed to help users live a more convenient life through voice assistance, but it also records and stores information on its users. This relates to 1984 because both the telescreens and the Amazon Echo invade people’s privacy within their very own homes. People should be concerned about this similarity …show more content…
In the novel Winston’s only way of having some sense of privacy is to hide in the corner of his home, “For some reason the telescreen in the living-room was in an unusual position. Instead of being placed, as was normal, in the end wall, where it could command the whole room, it was in the longer wall, opposite the window….By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen…”(Orwell 5). Winston is forced to hide inside his own home due to the government's constant monitoring. The government tracks citizens movements in order to look for suspicious activity. This is a crucial part of 1984 because its citizens have become complacent about the fact that they have no privacy and almost no basic rights, which is what our world will turn into if we let surveillance continue on its current path. For example, in an article that discusses the need for security the author describes the extreme surveillance in London as, “...impossible to avoid all of the 96 cameras at Heathrow airport, 1,800 in train stations, 6,000 on the London Underground, 260 around parliament, 230 used for license plate recognition in city center, and the dozens surveying West End streets”(Carlile 3). Carlile is describing the amount of surveillance that is present in London. This connects back to 1984 because our society is being constantly watched no matter