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Even though Orwell might not have foreseen the Internet-era surveillance that would be unleashed on most of us, he did understand the intrinsic nature of human behavior, and that nature lends itself towards surveillance. It wants to know what others are doing. It needs to know what others are doing, and that is the basis for most of its control.I think privacy has always been hard-fought, and I think that privacy was not something that early mankind had access to. For a moment there, we thought we had a choice, but with the advent of the Internet, digitization, nodes, networks, and interconnectedness, privacy is going to be as difficult for us as it was for those 100,000 years ago.
PS. Love the book.
PPS: this https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/t-magazine/myanmar-george-orwell.html 1 reply
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