George Orwell got almost everything right; with the exception of this: he believed the government would have to force people to leave on the tele screens. Not even Orwell could conceive of a population that would voluntarily choose to be glued to the screens 24/7. As someone has pointed out, social media is the largest social experiment ever carried out; it is succeeding, and we are failing.
George Orwell got almost everything right; with the exception of this: he believed the government would have to force people to leave on the tele screens. Not even Orwell could conceive of a population that would voluntarily choose to be glued to the screens 24/7. As someone has pointed out, social media is the largest social experiment ever carried out; it is succeeding, and we are failing.
This may be the first dictatorship in history to pay for the cost of overthrowing the previous regime, not after taking power by expropriating property of its enemies or conquering other polities, but by charging fees and selling advertising in the runup to the coup.
George Orwell got almost everything right; with the exception of this: he believed the government would have to force people to leave on the tele screens. Not even Orwell could conceive of a population that would voluntarily choose to be glued to the screens 24/7. As someone has pointed out, social media is the largest social experiment ever carried out; it is succeeding, and we are failing.
This may be the first dictatorship in history to pay for the cost of overthrowing the previous regime, not after taking power by expropriating property of its enemies or conquering other polities, but by charging fees and selling advertising in the runup to the coup.