Technology: making humanist arguments almost irrelevant

[alice wellintown]

What has steadily, insidiously improved since then, of course, making
humanist arguments almost irrelevant, is the technology. We must not be too
distracted by the clunkiness of the means of surveillance current in
Winston Smith's era. In "our" 1984, after all, the integrated circuit chip
was less than a decade old, and almost embarrassingly primitive next to the
wonders of computer technology circa 2003, most notably the internet, a
development that promises social control on a scale those quaint old
20th-century tyrants with their goofy moustaches could only dream about.
from the Foreword to 1984
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