Showing posts with label big brother. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big brother. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2009

One commercial you won't ignore

You've read about it, and now its finally here. The RFID chip implant - here's the commercial:

Friday, October 2, 2009

Huxley vs Orwell

Amusing Ourselves to Death cartoon

This is a very good comparison of the two authors, and I think each viewpoint is equally important. My conclusion would be slightly different, in that I think Orwell imagined that we would resist to the bitter end, and Huxley thought we would fall like a house of cards. In a way, Orwell was the more optimistic of the two.