orwell in comment and analysis
RSS orwell in comment and analysis
Sort by: Relevance | Date
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06
Round-Up George Orwell eat your heart out? What a week! For starters it's been a case of red faces all round at Apple (shame), with news that a number of iPods have shipped containing a virus. Of course it wasn't just Apple's fault - oh no - it was a... [20 Oct 2006]
Opinion: Get ready for global surveillance
Comment George Orwell's 1984, one might argue, has finally arrived, 22 years late. As George Orwell wrote: "Big brother is watching you. Despite our best attempts to squelch the desire of business and government to monitor our moves online, in the end Big... [25 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Here comes 1984
Comment George Orwell's novel 1984 was inspired by the fear that a Stalinist communist regime would come to dominate people's lives. Martin Brampton isn't, despite what looks like the coming of a truly Orwellian society. [01 Nov 2005]
Devil's Advocate: ID cards won't stop terrorists
Comment Governments have become fond of waging wars of all kinds, despite the unhealthy echoes of Orwell's novel 1984. As with the war on drugs, the government has apparently made little progress in stopping terrorist attacks thus far. [12 Jul 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.12.03
Round-Up Or how about "Not tonight Josephine.but perhaps rather than coming from the mouth of the diminutive French Emperor a more appropriate Napoleon might have been the one from Orwell's Animal Farm. Now, us Brits are supposed to be a nation of animal... [12 Dec 2003]
Don't blame the technology for 'Big Brother' society
Comment George Orwell created the then futuristic vision of a terrifying totalitarian police state where people are subject to intense surveillance against the backdrop of constant war in his book '1984'. With the inane goings-on of the tiresome bunch of... [25 Jun 2003]
Privazzzzzy? Pay attention, your wallet's at risk
Comment In George Orwell's 1984, everyone has a TV screen, with an "always-on" connection, in their flats to allow the government to watch their every move. Orwell never paid much attention to the people behind the TV screen. [17 May 2001]
Keep updated for stories matching orwell in comment and analysis via RSS
