In George Orwell’s 1984, technology has advanced well beyond Orwell’s time, but only for the purpose of controlling the citizens of Oceania, marking notable similarity between the 2013 incident with Edward Snowden. In the novel, the use of technology is used to keep their citizens under tight surveillance. In Tom Heads article “Big Brother is Watching” he says, “as technology improves, privacy as we know it will inevitably evaporate; the best we can hope for is the power to watch the watchers.” In this quote the writer means that with the new advancements and emergences in technology, privacy will inevitably decline. We could argue that in real life, technology is now more and more seemingly like “spying,” diminishing our privacy. In the book,
