However, it’s possible to make the comparison between “Big Brother” and both the NSA and Google. But in the end (spoiler!) the state catches up to him and wipes his mind clean of his rebellious thoughts, and kills him in the end with a clean mind.Ĭontrary to 1984, it may not seem as though our “Big Brother” is watching us all the time. By meeting Julia, a likeminded woman, and O’Brien, a man who seemed willing to work with him to overthrow the state, he attempts to rebel. In doing so he must remain an ordinary citizen to avoid committing thoughtcrime: harboring thoughts against the state. He feels uncomfortable, yearning for the truth but cannot even facial display his inner thoughts, which are also monitored by the state. Winston, the main character, lives in a world of poverty where “Big Brother” the state is always watching you. Written in 1949, “ 1984” is set in the imagined future of London in the year 1984. In the same way it’s not hard to imagine that the technology we increasingly rely on so much today will be used to control how we think, perhaps not consciously, but it will happen: our human nature makes us so easily susceptible to the dangers of technology that any of us dare imagine. In 1984, this means strengthening the Party, “Big Brother” in Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 the people are also slaves to the state. In all three books, each setting wants to strengthen the state by altering the minds of the peoples in their own way. Although each novel focuses on a different aspect of each dystopian world, they can all be interpreted as a possible future of our tech world. If you haven’t read them, please do so (there are spoilers up ahead!) because they’re worth the read.

And more people are getting affected by the benign facade of the future tech age than we think.ġ984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 are all dystopian novels set in an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad (although one can make the case that Brave New World is a utopia with a dystopian flip side).

However, I’m arguing there’s a dark side to everything. It has granted us access to new information such as finding new things in space, making the lives of the elderly and disabled easier, and making significant changes in our lives for the better. Technology has done some amazing things in our lives. How our future tech world is becoming increasingly like the dystopian novel trilogy: 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451īefore you read this article, understand I am not completely against technology. The Future Tech World of 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451

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