They state, “In fact, the vast majority of surveillance performed by law enforcement agencies in the United States is, almost certainly, carrier-assisted surveillance. According to an online research database academic article, “Your Secret Stingray’s No Secret Anymore…,” written by Stephanie Pell and Christopher Soghoian proves that we use telescreens in a more advanced way. Telescreens are now easily recognizable in modern society today. All the actions and conversations you make are easily recognizable by the people monitoring the telescreens. In this dystopian world, privacy ceases to exist. You wouldn’t be able to do the things you want to do alone in your own time. If you were a citizen of Oceania, you would be in constant fear knowing that someone is always watching your actions. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard” (5). He states, “The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. A middle-class citizen named Winston Smith had to deal with these technologies called the telescreens everywhere he went. The political party uses technology in Nineteen Eighty-Four that has been modified to enable surveillance over the people of Oceania. In similarity, both works use propaganda/advertisements in their societies to control society. The political party uses fear in Nineteen Eighty-Four and pleasure is used in Brave New World. For example, the methods that are used to control people are different from one another. The 1998 film version of Brave New World based on Huxley’s novel and Orwell’s novel both have similarities on what they thought how society would be like, but it differently approaches the use of their ideas. Huxley’s prediction is more likely than Orwell’s vision. Most of the elements that they presented in their novels ended up becoming a reality however, only one’s vision of the future was more likely than the other. The novels Nineteen Eighty-Four written by George Orwell and Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley both envisioned how society would end up as a dystopia. In the 20th century, two dystopian writers had predicted the fate of the world that we live in today. It is somewhat cloudy to forseek what new advancements that may arrive in the future.
As years pass by, human society has advanced in very unpredictable ways due to the evolution of ideas and technologies.
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