Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984 and one of the last free men of Oceania, wants nothing more than to remember the history before Big Brother. Big Brother attempts to control the public and their perception of the truth through numerous surveillance techniques. Big Brother maximized the political ruling class's control over the residents of Airstrip 1 through the creation of Newspeak, a variety of propaganda, and constant surveillance of citizens through the use of telescreens and video surveillance. thought police. Many believe that Orwell invented the political ideas surrounding his book Nineteen Eighty-Four. It was written at a time when politics were influenced by World War I and the following decade. In The Road to Wigan Pier, Orwell writes: “The horrors of the Russian Revolution were still fresh in everyone's minds. » I don't think Orwell was necessarily giving us a detailed picture of what the future will look like or how political communication will be conducted. In DJ Taylor's 2004 biography of George Orwell, he observed that "the appeal – and resonance – of 1984 for many of its original readers came from the fact that it depicted a world that, on the whole, they already knew. » This quote reinforces my idea that Orwell did not prophesy the future but forces us to think about how our past actions control our future. O'Briens Statement "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." Orwell recounts what he and many others experienced as a teenager living through the horrors of the First World War. In my mind, this only reinforces the idea that 1984 was written around the structure of the Russian Revolution, fueling Orwell's predictions... middle of paper ...... every step we take is on a tape somewhere. . The same goes for smartphones, thanks to new tracking technology and apps like “Find My Friends” or the Facebook Check-in feature, everyone is tracked. The only thing left for us to do is trust that the government will not misuse our information. Even though Orwell got the surveillance part right, he was definitely wrong about the big brothers' ability to control us. Yes, the media can have some sort of control over us. The majority of people do not watch programs that allow them to frame and begin the information provided to us. We can look to other sources of information to find the truth instead of having a single reliable source "The Trinity of Truth" as was the case in 1984. Resistance can now be easily organized and people can be united through social media or forums like Reddit..