Big Brother Watching Technology has become one of the biggest industries in the world as almost everyone has a smartphone these days, but the main question we must ask, is that a good thing or a bad thing? George Orwell explores the dangerous potential that technology has in his book 1984, where the government of Oceania uses the technologically advanced system to watch and monitor its people, limiting their rights. In modern day our governments have come closer and closer to doing the same thing and limiting the rights of their people too much. How much is too much though and when do we draw the line? In some places today like North Korea the line has been drawn allowing the government to have too much control, but even in the land of the
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The government, or the Party, was able to do this using the advanced technology, but in today 's world we use our advancements to help find criminals, occasionally stepping out of line though. In 1984 the telescreens are the eyes and ears of the Party and they were able to control its citizens using fear. However in today 's society the Federal Government has put in rules and regulations in order to stop the Big Brother government from forming. George Orwell writes, “The instrument, (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.” and that is what drove him to his actions,the idea of being controlled by another person was just too much to hold down his feelings until The Party brainwashed him into submission and made all of his old “rebellious” thoughts feel sickening to him. After Winston Smith was tortured by the government in order to change his thoughts he recalls, “What happens to you here is forever” O 'Brien said and Winston agrees describing his old feeling to have been “killed in your breast; burn out, cauterized out” (Orwell 290). The technological advancements that allowed the government to do the horrible brainwashing and terrorist like mind games, but their actions are all there own because it can also be used to
The government, or the Party, was able to do this using the advanced technology, but in today 's world we use our advancements to help find criminals, occasionally stepping out of line though. In 1984 the telescreens are the eyes and ears of the Party and they were able to control its citizens using fear. However in today 's society the Federal Government has put in rules and regulations in order to stop the Big Brother government from forming. George Orwell writes, “The instrument, (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.” and that is what drove him to his actions,the idea of being controlled by another person was just too much to hold down his feelings until The Party brainwashed him into submission and made all of his old “rebellious” thoughts feel sickening to him. After Winston Smith was tortured by the government in order to change his thoughts he recalls, “What happens to you here is forever” O 'Brien said and Winston agrees describing his old feeling to have been “killed in your breast; burn out, cauterized out” (Orwell 290). The technological advancements that allowed the government to do the horrible brainwashing and terrorist like mind games, but their actions are all there own because it can also be used to