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George Orwell warned us via his dystopian novel, “1984.”
Orwell knew not future technology but was pretty accurate in his vision of such. 1984 is here and now. Orwell was right. He knew what we would do with this technology.

Oddly the thing Orwell got wrong was his vision was a centralized oppressive government, which we do have. He did not envision a politicized non government such as google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. as and integral part of government suppression of the free flow of ideas and truth. On that point Ann Ryand got it exactly correct in her great and also dystopian novel, “Atlas Shrugged.”

Damn shame Ann Ryand was not married to Orwell. The book they could have written together would have been the best of both and exceeding boths individual and great talents.

I wonder if they ever meet each other? It would have been a conversation most worthy of listening too.

Forgot to add this, If one desires to know how Orwell the communist became a libertarian and light socialist read his novel, "Letters from Catalonia." He went to Spain as a hard core leftists and fought for the Republicans that were the communists. In Spain he discovered the dark truths of communism. He returned to England as a libertarian and socialist light. If he had of lived longer and seen want England was becoming he would have been a right wing conservative. He was a great man of intellect.

Oddly he was wounded in Spain not by Franco's troops but by other Marxist factions fighting for supremacy within the Marxist factions. It made an impression on Orwell's thinking.