Similarities Between 1984 And That's My Tracker By George Orwell

Technology is becoming advance more and more throughout the years take these following examples of similarities between 1984 and other literatures technology. In the story 1984 shows how the government can use technology to spy on their citizens and in That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker talks about present day government using cellphones to keep track on citizens and track them down. Another article i’ll be using is This Smartphone Tracking Tech Will Give You the Creeps talks about the government spying on you and how they are doing so using modern technology. Technology in the present day society is closely paralleled to orwell’s vision in 1984 because the telescreens are like our cell phones, the newspeak is like our google, and the thought
1984 has very similar technology the author George Orwell explains one of the main technology “The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely” (orwell,pg 2). The telescreen as the author explains is like a television but you’re not able to turn it off and someone is always watching and listening to every word your say. It’s like a cell phones you can turn it off but you don’t really turn it off because the government is always listening. The author also states that there is a thought police that watches your every thought “the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time” (orwell,pg 3). The thought police is very much like the modern day FBI they are able to listen to anyone conversation and watch every movement you take. Showing that the novel 1984 and modern day society have similar
In the novel Orwell explains how the party controls the past present and future by saying “If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, never happened-that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death” (Orwell,pg 34). Meaning the party takes the past and change it just because they want people to believe something that didn’t really happen so that they have control over the past, present, and future. As stated in the novel they use this device that lets then speak into and it write down what you say “To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers…” (Orwell,pg 37). Its showing how they use the speakwrite to change the