10 ways big government uses AI to create the totalitarian society of Orwell's classic '1984'
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George Orwell's classic novel of dystopia, "1984," showed monolithic government using artificial intelligence and surveillance to create a totalitarian society. Here are 10 ways this is relevant today.
The terrifying tandem of technology and the human intoxicant of power is used in Oceania to rewrite history, control society, crush the human spirit and keep the Party entrenched forever. "Big Brother is watching you." — George Orwell, "1984" "Nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws." — Orwell Words such as honor, justice, morality, democracy, science and religion "had simply ceased to exist." — Orwell Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
Protagonist Winston Smith works for the ironically named Ministry of Truth, a job he hates. He dreams of the freedom to think, act, write and love.
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