1984

[pynchonoid]

 http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/01/orwells_london_neigh.html

Orwell's London neighborhood covered in spy-cameras
Dozens of private and public spy-cameras surveil the
streets, walls and windows of the area around George
Orwell's apartment. Britain, the nation that
"sleepwalked into a surveillance society," has created
the landscape that Orwell envisioned, a world where
your every step is recorded from every angle. And as
Cardinal Richelieu said, "If you give me six lines
written by the most honest man, I will find something
in them to hang him." Is there any among us whose
movements aren't suspicious under the wrong
circumstances?


    On the wall outside his former residence - flat
number 27B - where Orwell lived until his death in
1950, an historical plaque commemorates the
anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the
flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.

    Orwell's view of the tree-filled gardens outside
the flat is under 24-hour surveillance from two
cameras perched on traffic lights.

    The flat's rear windows are constantly viewed from
two more security cameras outside a conference centre
in Canonbury Place.

    In a lane, just off the square, close to Orwell's
favourite pub, the Compton Arms, a camera at the rear
of a car dealership records every person entering or
leaving the pub.

    Within a 200-yard radius of the flat, there are
another 28 CCTV cameras, together with hundreds of
private, remote-controlled security cameras used to
scrutinise visitors to homes, shops and offices. 


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