(Mackenzie 2005)YES, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHINGGeorge
(Mackenzie 2005)
YES, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
George Orwell, in case you didn't know it, was a genius. His legendary novel, 1984, written at the end of the 1940s, offered a chillingly prophetic vision of a future in which "Big Brother" watched your every move. The surveillance was conducted through television sets, which were omnipresent. When the real 1984 came around 35 years later, it was observed that "In Orwell's novel, television watched everybody: in reality today everybody watches television". But this witty observation was made about a decade before the advent of the Internet. If Orwell's book were to be rewritten, with citizens being monitored by their web activity, rather than by television, then you would have a nightmare vision of a world that is already coming into existence.
Interview by Michele Molinari
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The sentence "If Orwell's book were to be rewritten, you would have a nightmare vision of the world" in the THIRD CONDITIONAL will be:
If Orwell's book had to been rewritten, you would have been a nightmare vision of the world.
If Orwell's book had been rewritten, you would have had a nightmare vision of the world.
If Orwell's book had rewritten, you would have a nightmare vision of the world.
If Orwell's book had been rewriting, you would had have a nightmare vision of the world.
If Orwell's book had rewritten, you would have been a nightmare vision of the world.
