1984 is coming!

kingwaffles · Post by **kingwaffles** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:45 pm

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... news_rss20

Run for your lives!

AndyDufresne · Post by **AndyDufresne** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:05 pm

Yes...it does sound all too coincidental and creepy...

--Andy

moz976 · Post by **moz976** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:21 am

If you liked 1984 you should check out Welcome to the Monkey House by Jack Kerouac. There are some short stories in there that could so easily come true.

paranoid-android · Post by **paranoid-android** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:55 am

hehe, just moving this on up

ClessAlvein · Post by **ClessAlvein** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:02 am

Didn't Apple make a commercial in which Microsoft was "Big Brother" in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Apple a rebel?

Guilty_Biscuit · Post by **Guilty_Biscuit** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:04 am

I hope that they don't 'forget' to include an off button.

strike wolf · Post by **strike wolf** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:20 am

kingwaffles wrote:http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... news_rss20

Run for your lives!

A little late isn't it?

And I believe the guy who owns Apple (I forget his name) gave a live speech where he tricked Bill Gates into looking like Big Brother or something along those lines. I think the original commercial was aimed at some other company (Drawing a blank on the name.)

Iliad · Post by **Iliad** » Wed May 02, 2007 6:26 am

strike wolf wrote:
kingwaffles wrote:http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... news_rss20

Run for your lives!
A little late isn't it?

And I believe the guy who owns Apple (I forget his name) gave a live speech where he tricked Bill Gates into looking like Big Brother or something along those lines. I think the original commercial was aimed at some other company (Drawing a blank on the name.)

The big brother part was the pact that Microsoft and Apple did in 1999.

Titanic · Post by **Titanic** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:40 am

strike wolf wrote:
kingwaffles wrote:http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... news_rss20

Run for your lives!
A little late isn't it?

And I believe the guy who owns Apple (I forget his name) gave a live speech where he tricked Bill Gates into looking like Big Brother or something along those lines. I think the original commercial was aimed at some other company (Drawing a blank on the name.)

Steve Jobs..I think...

Phobia · Post by **Phobia** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:25 pm

If 1984 was coming in any country first, it has to be in the UK, here are some facts -

- The UK owns 20% of the world's CCTV cameras.
- On average, you are captured on camera over 300 times a day in London.
- There is one camera for every 14 people.

Not only does cameras know when and where you are, Bank Machines record when and where you used it, Loyalty Cards in supermarkets for example record what you buy and when, and Cable TV records what you watched and for how long.

Backglass · Post by **Backglass** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:56 pm

strike wolf wrote:And I believe the guy who owns Apple (I forget his name)

His name is "Backglass".

(Well...100 shares anyway.

)

Danmagnet · Post by **Danmagnet** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:48 pm

In Britain they've also started attaching microphones to CCTV cameras to make sure you're not talking about anything inappropriate (still being trialled) and some CCTV camera setups allow the operator to communicate with those being watched.

/me moves to some carribean island.

pancakemix · Post by **pancakemix** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:58 pm

moz976 wrote:If you liked 1984 you should check out Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. There are some short stories in there that could so easily come true.

Fixed.

2dimes · Post by **2dimes** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:24 pm

Backglass wrote:
strike wolf wrote:And I believe the guy who owns Apple (I forget his name)
His name is "Backglass".

(Well...100 shares anyway. )

What's that cost a guy?

kingwaffles · Post by **kingwaffles** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:50 pm

Woww some serious garve digging going on here, this thread was over a year old...

Anyways the US has its share of 1984esqueness as well with our wonderful president doing everything in his ability to get warrantless wiretapping legal.

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:53 pm

moz976 wrote:If you liked 1984 you should check out Welcome to the Monkey House by Jack Kerouac. There are some short stories in there that could so easily come true.

That was pretty frightening.

Backglass · Post by **Backglass** » Thu May 03, 2007 7:48 am

2dimes wrote:What's that cost a guy?

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=aapl

moz976 · Post by **moz976** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:50 am

pancakemix wrote:
moz976 wrote:If you liked 1984 you should check out Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. There are some short stories in there that could so easily come true.
Fixed.

I don't know why I always transpose those two. Very different authors both very good though.

1984 is coming!

1984 is coming!

Re: 1984 is coming!

Re: 1984 is coming!

Re: 1984 is coming!

Re: 1984 is coming!

Re: 1984 is coming!

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