Mr. Norton . Goldstein 6542 - 39th N.E. Seattle, WA 98115 USA George Orwell's book 1984 gave life to a gloomy, dark world where Oceania's citizens are all members of the Party and must worship Big Brother, their all-seeing leader. Through everpresent two way tele-screens the Party pushed its propaganda while also spying on the populace . Now there are other forces, other Big Brothers, at work shaping our future. New technologies that may be more effective at monitoring citizens than 1984's tele-screens . Advanced technology is making privacy non-existent as computers make even our most personal lives available to anyone with access. Think for a moment about all of the records that contain bits of personal information about you. As long as each fact is used only for its intended purpose, the bulk of your personal data really doesn't matter. All too frequently, however, the information is handed around electronically to serve a variety of private ends. More and more of the experiences that should be solely our own are finding their way into electronic files that the curious can scrutinize at the push of a button. Some airline reservation computers, for example, closely measure how long
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1984 and beyond
Goldstein, Norton H.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Jan 2, 1991
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