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To: goldylight
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could igve you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself, anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face, was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime"

"1984" pg 54

15 posted on 02/13/2002 6:23:36 AM PST by freeeee
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To: freeeee
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could igve you away.

Quite some time ago, Rush Limbaugh addressed this. There apparently is software available that can "read" the pupil of the eye. He predicted it would be used in the classroom to monitor students' reactions to the teachers' lessons. Scary, indeed!

72 posted on 02/13/2002 6:58:35 AM PST by twigs
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