Since , China been creating a number of artificial islands in the hotly-contested South China Sea to assert its dominance and stake a claim to the route. In "," the Versificator is a tool which automatically produces music and literature in line with ruling party standards, without human input. Orwell described the music made by the versificator in "" as follows: "The tune had been haunting London for weeks past.
It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. In the last 3 years, both the worlds of music and literature have announced their first autonomous creations.
In , the first album every produced by AI was released. You can listen to it here. In , Orwell describes how Oceania's musical propaganda "were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. On the laptop AI software used a camera, GPS, microphone, and clock attached to the car to record information, process it, and translate it into a novel based on its own terms. Which it did. Source: The Atlantic. Posters bearing his image adorned billboards in cities, and acted as warnings to potential rule-breakers.
In North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un launched a new set of propaganda posters with images of him spurring his people to work hard and make him proud. In , Orwell wrote: "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. Winston later finds out Big Brother is just a fictional figure invented by the party to muster loyalty. Orwell created a story that had suspense and had characters whom readers identify with. We are more likely all Winstons, knowing that something is wrong, that we are losing control of our lives, but also knowing that we are powerless to resist.
We did not know what the old privacy policy was; we feel fairly certain that, if we read the new one, we would not understand what has changed or what we are giving away. We suspect everyone else just clicks the box. So we click the box and dream of a world in which there are no boxes to click. A non-trivial example is when your electoral process is corrupted by a foreign power and your government talks about charging the people who tried to investigate this interference with treason.
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The book still sells by the thousands, and is read by students who are compelled to do so. But it can be read voluntarily and profitably, and it can tell us a lot about contemporary politics and power, from Donald Trump to Facebook. Nineteen Eighty-Four became an instant classic when published in People could see in it a world that could easily become a reality.
Oppression, surveillance and control are facts of life in a society ruled by the Party and its four Ministries of Truth, Peace, Plenty and Love. Read more: What does 'Orwellian' mean, anyway? Not only do we use many of these words today, but the manipulative function that Orwell described is still intact.
Nineteen Eighty-Four became an Amazon bestseller following the election of Trump and the airing of this interview. They share unlawful thoughts about other possible ways of living and thinking, based upon vague and unreliable memories of a time before world wars and Big Brother and the Party.
But through its immense powers of surveillance and the efforts of the Thought Police, Big Brother knows everything, and soon the lovers are suspects. He wrote about what he saw around him, but filtered it with an acute sensitivity to the innate fragility of civilisation.
In , when the plot-lines of Nineteen Eighty-Four were probably gestating in his head, Orwell wrote :. Either power politics must yield to common decency, or the world must go spiralling down into a nightmare into which we can already catch some dim glimpses.
These days, a lot of power politics circulates online.
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