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Well, yes and no. Yes because the computer technology we have now (or even the 1970's/1980's) is superior to the computer tech of Orwell's "1984." I got a big kick out of the John Hurt "!984" movie where Winston Smith used a rotary phone dial to control his PC workstation. The "no" part is that we do not have government controlled camera in our homes although many do have web cams that could be hacked perhaps.

BTW, I keep thinking when I said in 1983, "what if we ever became the Empire?" I also asked then, "what if the US became the USSR and the USSR became the US?"