According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.
Use of spy cameras in modern-day Britain is now a chilling mirror image of Orwell's fictional world, created in the post-war Forties in a fourth-floor flat overlooking Canonbury Square in Islington, North London.
On the wall outside his former residence - flat number 27B - where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.
Big Brother is here!
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George Orwell was a British author from the early part of the 20th Century. He has a lot of interesting essays and novels to his credit. The most famous of which is “1984”. In this book Orwell created the character called “Big Brother” that we now use as a normal phrase in English and even name TV shows after it (The Shilpa Shetty racial slur imbroglio).
In his story the world in the year 1984 becomes very communistic and the government monitors every minute of the citizens life through continuous video monitoring. And there is a continuous video telecast of the leader across the world telling people how to live their lives. Parallels of this theme can be seen in the game “Half-Life 2” the movies “V for Vendatta” , “Aeon Flux”
If you’ve been keeping up with world events lately, things are slowly becoming what Orwell predicted for 1984, and in some cases worse.
* Britain set up surveillance cameras all over the country
* Governments want to track your every online move
* Google maintains a database of what you search, watch, read, your mails, your news, your maps and all this is available to governments, they only have to ask
* TSA wants to search you and your luggage down to the smallest atoms.
* Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S.
* U.S.Pressures ISPs on Data Retention
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These are just some of the few things that are well-known. Everyday there are a few news articles I come across that make Orwell’s 1984 look better
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Hence the conclusion: Orwell was an optimist!
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