Technology In 1984 By George Orwell

Why does technology hold a huge role in a society? Technology plays an important role in any society and none is more prominent than the fictional dystopian society of Oceania from George Orwell’s novel, 1984. In the fictitious setting of 1984 the people are controlled by the group known only as the Party. The Party controls every part of their citizens’ lives and the citizens are being constantly monitored by various forms of technology. In America 2017 the NSA has logged all texts, phone calls, and tweets but we have not seen the effects of logging all that information. As technology evolves, it allows the fictitious and real governments to monitor and control the people in their societies. The most prevalent form of monitoring technology
“Here were produced rubbishy newspapers, containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope” (Orwell 43). All of these things add up to what is referred to infotainment which is news that is meant to be entertaining. “Infotainment came about through the blurring of the line between information and entertainment in in news” (Matthews). In the novel infotainment does not exist because all the news is stripped down to the bare minimum to keep it as not entertaining as possible. Modern people see infotainment plastered everywhere especially on their social media accounts. Facebook for example has plenty of meaningless garbage such as the page Cracked.com which is a column that produces a large majority of articles. Even though Orwell’s prediction was slightly skewed about full control of the people, he was still correct in terms that there is partial control by drawing away people’s attention from larger problems in the world such as the possibility of going to war with North