Historian warns of a Brave New World style society.

a reply to: starwarsisreal

While it might be too much for the masses, this world will not be chosen by the masses.

originally posted by: Mandroid7

originally posted by: Krazysh0t
Neither book will happen in the future. Predicting the future is impossible and neither of these authors are going to be successful with it either. For every parallel you can find between a Brave New World or 1984 and modern society, I can find many more examples that don't align with those books.

Anyone who thinks that a book written in the 1930's truly understands or describes today's world or direction it is going is naive.

Well just don't complain too loud, your GD TV, cellphone, ipad, Kindle and toaster are listening.

Not mine. I think that hooking up my appliances to my wi-fi is a waste of wi-fi bandwidth and opens you up to exploitation to hackers. I explicitly don't WANT to buy appliances with wi-fi. The only things that can be listened in on would be a smart tv and a cell phone. I don't even have a webcam.

And then there's this: