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How the Computer Became Personal

202130 minPGdocumentary

George Orwell's predictions in "1984" resonate today as video surveillance, phone tapping, and internet monitoring have become pervasive realities.

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Channel: True Story Documentary Channel

How the Computer Became Personal

2021• 30 minPG

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George Orwell's predictions in "1984" resonate today as video surveillance, phone tapping, and internet monitoring have become pervasive realities.

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Video surveillance everywhere, the possibility to tap telephones and mobiles as well as to monitor internet traffic: what George Orwell foretold in his grim futuristic novel of 1949 has today, at least in part, become reality. Fate decreed that Orwell's book title, "1984", would anticipate the year that saw the beginnings of the development of the computer technology.

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