A Comparison Of Technology, 1984 And 1984, By George Orwell

As time continues to progress with a greater amount of technology being relied on there has been a dramatic increase of people being spied on by the government. Technology is advancing quickly and so is the way the government retains the people's information. Although, people feared to have a society alike to the one in the novel 1984 written by George Orwell, the society in America is very similar in tremendous ways.
In the 1984 novel by George Orwell, the government or best known as Big Brother has complete power over the people in Oceania. Big Brother also determines which technology may be used. Written in the novel, “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously… he could be seen as well as heard,” (Orwell,3). The quote from
As Christina DesMarais described in This Smartphone Tracking Tech Will Give you the Creeps, “...labels all sorts of helpful information, such as bathrooms, ATMs, and airport gates,” (DesMarais,77). The amount of information that GPS, Google Maps, and Skyhook provide is astonishing. Not only is the information based on the places people go to is being taken but data of the people is being documented. Companies are profiting off of the amount of information they consuming from tracking the people. Tracking the people is extremely similar to 1984. Big Brother will track the people through telescreens and having many Thought Police watching the citizens in Oceania which is relatable to the use of the technology being used to track the
In the article Our Surveillance Society: What Orwell and Kafka Might Say by Alan Greenblatt explains, “...smartphones and widespread surveillance cameras no conversations or movement…considered private,” (Greenblatt,74). The words from Greenblatt is important because it describes how much technology is being used in modern society and the minimal privacy one has using technology. Due to society relying on technology, the government has more access to gaining information of the citizens in an effortless form. Smartphones are similar to telescreens because both can hear and see what the citizens are doing or saying. Also, as written in Big Brother Is Watching You, Long Beach: New Police Surveillance System Unveiled, Lauren Lloyd elaborates, “The chief noted that the cameras are located in the public sector… and [it wont be used] unless there are real security concerns,” (Lloyd, 78). If the government was watching the people without them knowing what makes the police officers not do the same? At any given time the officers can go and spy. With the greater amount of cameras displayed all over the city will minimize the freedom of the people along with giving the officers the right to spy on the people with no notice just like Big Brother. Both Big Brother and modern society spy on the