1984

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In 1984 whilst attending secondary school I read and was deeply affected by George Orwells ‘Nineteen Eighty Four” written in 1948 (note the number reversal) and published in 1949 forecasting much of what we are now experiencing in a contemporaneous society. 

George Orwell for me provided answers to the jigsaw of life with ‘Animal Farm’ also on our reading list. I recall also reading during that year Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ prompting me to consider social action as a lifelong mission.

We now live in George Orwell’s satirical fantasy it seems and also Aldous Huxley’s ‘Animal farm’. In fact ‘The Circle’ by Dave Eggers is even now a bygone concept as Google has released plans to re-develop the ‘Google Clip’, which subsequently hit major issues regarding privacy and died.

The panopticon is however what we live and try to breathe in and wearable computing is how they sold us to them.