According to the "Mirror" news on January 23, the British left-wing writer George Orwell published a long political novel in 1949 - "1984", in which the four prophecies of today's society were fulfilled one by one. There's a frightening fantasy in 1984 that it's a nightmare to be watched all the time. Big Brother secretly observes through the "telescreen". All the people in Winston lost the right to whisper, because no matter how small the voice, could be heard. Within the field of view of the metal plaque, everything people do will be discovered. In today's society, some of the software on the mobile phone is suspected of eavesdropping, just after discussing what to eat at noon with colleagues, open the mobile phone to come to the food promotion of nearby restaurants, but the promotion content is the keyword in the conversation.
There are many words in 1984, such as "double thinking" (maintaining and accepting two contradictory cognitive abilities in one's mind at the same time), "new words", "thought police", "fraternity department" (department dealing with pain, despair and annihilation of any dissenting opinion; "peace department" (the department responsible for armaments and war); "novel division" (pumping out a large number of garbage works to buy off the masses), and so on. These terms have had a particularly profound impact on the society dominated by high-tech companies. The fantasy vocabulary in the novel can no longer be changed in the 21st century, so let's take a look at what Orwell's "1984" predicted by our real world seventy years ago.
Electric screen
In the novel "1984", it is a two-way TV that is ubiquitous in people's daily lives, and it is possible to promote products to the audience through this two-way TV and facilitate the audience's viewing. Described in this way, we quickly think of the TV in the living room, and we will find that there are many similarities between the two. Samsung's TV has also been revealed to record the user's personal information, suspected of being a telescreen in the novel "1984".
Language commands
In his novel 1984, it is written that Winston did not like to write with a pen, except for short notes, and most of the time it would be conveyed in the form of oral complaints. In today's society, smart voice assistants such as Siri on Apple's mobile phones rely on our verbal complaints and commands to execute.
Ubiquitous cameras
There is a scene in the novel where Winston and his lover Julia go to the countryside, and even the countryside is full of cameras, which are now smaller. In the UK alone, there are an estimated 5 million security cameras.
Machine-generated entertainment
In the novel "1984", it is mentioned that machines can provide entertainment to the public. Video games, also known as video games, are automatically generated by software that is written to automatically generate ratings, including automatic playback on TV channels recorded in advance.
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