1984 George Orwell Essay
In George Orwell’s most famous novel, 1984, he unleashes a story in the world of a dystopian society. The society is constructed around total power and elimination of free thought through the implementation of dangerous technology and censorships. Although our technology is progressing towards the same technology in 1984, in regards to tracking and monitoring, our technology is used for different motives, and therefore, is not taking us towards the world of Big Brother.
In the novel, George Orwell intends to illustrate what he believes the world will be like in the year 1984. He predicts monitoring screens, called telescreens, that track and view the progress of day to day lives of its citizens. The narrator notes that, “Any sound that Winston …show more content…
As portrayed in the article, “That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker.,” much of the information in our lives is being made available for surveillance. Maass writes, “cellphone carriers responded 1.3 million times last year to law enforcement requests for call data.” He argues that this is why phones are what makes today’s society Orwellian. However, retrieving data after a crime has been committed for evidence and being constantly monitored by the government are very different concepts. The motive is what separates our world from that of George Orwell. Officers acquire the call data of those who are being prosecuted or examined for crimes that they may have committed. In Orwell's fantasy world, the officers are monitoring the citizens. Today’s population is not being monitored, or tracked. Today’s population is being protected. Another large difference is that our phones are not government mandated, and we have the choice to not have one. Also, if we wanted to have secret calls that we felt needed to be hidden from our government, we have access to burn phones to make that possible. Burn phones are non-trackable and do not store data to a carrier or to the device itself. In the Orwellian society, the surveillance is unavoidable and
In the novel, George Orwell intends to illustrate what he believes the world will be like in the year 1984. He predicts monitoring screens, called telescreens, that track and view the progress of day to day lives of its citizens. The narrator notes that, “Any sound that Winston …show more content…
As portrayed in the article, “That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker.,” much of the information in our lives is being made available for surveillance. Maass writes, “cellphone carriers responded 1.3 million times last year to law enforcement requests for call data.” He argues that this is why phones are what makes today’s society Orwellian. However, retrieving data after a crime has been committed for evidence and being constantly monitored by the government are very different concepts. The motive is what separates our world from that of George Orwell. Officers acquire the call data of those who are being prosecuted or examined for crimes that they may have committed. In Orwell's fantasy world, the officers are monitoring the citizens. Today’s population is not being monitored, or tracked. Today’s population is being protected. Another large difference is that our phones are not government mandated, and we have the choice to not have one. Also, if we wanted to have secret calls that we felt needed to be hidden from our government, we have access to burn phones to make that possible. Burn phones are non-trackable and do not store data to a carrier or to the device itself. In the Orwellian society, the surveillance is unavoidable and