Well this is just great. We are now in 1984 and there is no privacy.
Good advice I learned a few years ago was to never write anything you don’t want the whole world to read.
Now we are in a world where, perhaps, we ought not *say* anything we don’t want the whole world to hear. Is thinking next? Scary!
"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized. |