George Orwell’s 1984 Has Become a Blueprint for Our Dystopian Reality
10 min readJun 28, 2021
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.” — George Orwell, 1984
Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell (Jun. 25, 1903-Jan. 21, 1950) has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state.