George Orwell was wrong

[lolozack]

But only about the date. 1984 was too optimistic, 2006 is far worst that he has envisaged.
I have heard this morning that a hard drive spy is tested at a wild scale for the next generation cars (recording not only your speed but your location, and other additional info, that are supposed to facilitate accidents inquiries). If implemented, such device allows anybody allowed to access to these informations, to know where you are precisely, at any time. Combining with video surveilllance, phone registering and identification, there will be no way escaping a complete tracking of everybody's life. The only way would be to move afoot and speak face to face, back to the early civilizations. Even "Cosa Nostra" has failed.
According to a remark from one of my friends, a movment like the French resistance would become not possible. Do you really agree that such possibility is prohibited for ever?
What I don't understand is the highlight about safe food, safe driving, safe smoking, safe internet, safe everything ... As far I know, we are all condamned to death, which seems to me a little bit unsafe. This word "safe" apppears to me a potential danger, since it could legitimate almost everything.

[The American Nightmare]

I agree! It's an Orwellian nightmare!

And you know who's behind all of it?

The crab people

[BeardedOne]

I agree! It's an Orwellian nightmare!

And you know who's behind all of it?

The crab people

The Craw!

[Ecstatic]

Orwell had a brilliant and freightening vision of the future controlled through centralized government and high technology, but I think Huxley may have hit nearer the mark with the genetic engineering he foresaw in Brave New World. First we have to survive global warming, terrorism, rogue nations with nuclear capacity, overpopulation, and the burgeoning economies/populations of China and India (all interconnected), but if we do, what will humanity look like in 50 or 100 years with inevitable developments in genetic engineering?

OK, quick, someone make me laugh.

[BeardedOne]

OK, quick, someone make me laugh.

You rang?

OK, these two dyslexics walk into a bra...

But seriously, folx...

I was raised in Brookline, MA, where the police worked for the highest bidder and justice was only doled out to those that earned the friendship, by cash or favor, of the Clerk of Courts (May the creepy bahstid rot in hell).

Then, along comes the 90's, the internet, a PC in every pot, etc.

Fast forward to the film, "The Net", which I really only watched because I'd go to see anything starring Sandra Buttocks. Forget Romero, King, and the Aliens flix, =this= was the first film that made my blood run cold and cost me a week of sleep.

The future is here, folx, get used to it. Do you have a credit or debit card, a driver's license, student ID? Wave them under a UV light and be amazed! Do you know where the owl is on the US $1 bill? Can you find the misspelling of "Challenger" (With only one L) on the Priority Mail stamp (There are no words printed on the stamp)? These are only security features on our currency and IDs, but they're just a hint of the stuff that passes under our noses everyday.

How many of you use the free version of AdAware on your computers? The first time I ran it I found over a hundred spyware cookies lurking in the brain. And I'm careful, because the shrinks say I'm 'paranoid'.

If www.porn.com knows who you are and what you're surfing, you can surely bet that the guv'mint does as well.

Because I brushed with the likes of the late Caspar Weinberger and Dr. Henry Kissinger, Senators Biden, Roth, Boxer, and Kennedy, and crashed the late Senator Tsongas' presidential fundraiser, the Sekrit Service already has my number. Do they have yours? Are you deserving of that attention? Do they think you are?

Adopt.

Adapt.

Improve.

Or die. It's just the facts, ma'am.

[Ecstatic]

Back to the bra....

[GlenAz]

More Orwellian news......

"The explosive idea of forcing Internet providers to record their customers' online activities for future police access is gaining ground in state capitols and in Washington, D.C. "

Full story here:

http://news.com.com/ISP+snooping+gai...?tag=nefd.lede

[Trogdor]

More like Logan's Run to me.

[BeardedOne]

Back to the bra....

Do you think it was a sports bra?

[cueball]

This is certainly a sobering thread!