Ever feel like you're being watched? Well, you’re not far off! With all this new technology we have, we can be watched even better than before! The NSA constantly surveils all of the U.S. citizens for the purpose to keep us “secure”. The NSA tracks and collects info from everyone and it is getting too excessive because it is becoming “orwellian”, invading people's' privacy, and for all this is not worth doing for the greater good of society. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four, is set in a dystopian totalitarian government, and the government can see “all”. Whether it be through a spy, or a “telescreen”, the government’s symbol known as Big Brother will know what you are doing, as said in the book, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" ( 1984, Pg. 3). This can sound quite familiar with our own government, can easily track us at any time with our smart phones, and possibly know what we are doing and saying through our smartphone’s mic and camera. Such as stated in the article, Our Surveillance Society: What Orwell and Kafka Might Say, “With advent of smartphones and
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There are telescreens every where in 1984, and in our world, our telescreens are our smartphones. "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it”(Pg 3). Our smartphones can do as much as a telescreen can, except for seeing what we are doing. The government or anyone with the ability to receive transmissions can know what we are saying, doing, and where we are. This can be quite scary, knowing there can be someone watching what you are doing at any given moment, likewise in 1984, “There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment”(Pg 3). To keep a smartphone is to keep a portable telescreen, this is truly a next level infringement of our
There are telescreens every where in 1984, and in our world, our telescreens are our smartphones. "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it”(Pg 3). Our smartphones can do as much as a telescreen can, except for seeing what we are doing. The government or anyone with the ability to receive transmissions can know what we are saying, doing, and where we are. This can be quite scary, knowing there can be someone watching what you are doing at any given moment, likewise in 1984, “There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment”(Pg 3). To keep a smartphone is to keep a portable telescreen, this is truly a next level infringement of our