Word: orwellianisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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World Wide Web die-hard surfers -- many of whom tend to be privacy-rights absolutists -- have been horrified to learn that thesoftware that guides them through the Internetcould pose huge Orwellian problems. Over the last week or so, a growing number of heads-up E-mail dispatches have warned that some "browsers," including free and commercial copycats of the popular Mosaic program, quietly supply the Internet E-mail addresses of Net site visitors. These lists, critics argue, could soon be sold to the highest bidder --or even to government snoopers. "You'll go into a bulletin board that...
Braderman views the media as an almost monstrous Orwellian creation--we don't just watch television, it also watches and speaks to us. Calling television the "tiny surveillance center in your home," Braderman insists that TV mandates: "Buy this, don't buy that, don't be fat, identify with my beauty, my wealth, my thighs...
Well, it turns out everything didn't go exactly according to plan. Despite the chain-link fence surrounding the 840-acre site, despite the 550 state troopers, the metal detectors, the confiscation of drugs and alcohol and the roaming private security force with the Orwellian name "Peace Patrol," a bit of the anarchy of the original Woodstock crept into its successor 25 years later. Several hundred people crashed the gates. The transportation system broke down early on, stranding huge numbers of fans and making the roads impassable. The audience pitched tents all over the grounds, despite pleas from the stage...
...eagerly scarf it up. "When a trend went out of style, we used to be forgiving of it and think it was quaint, like pink skirts with poodles and crew cuts with white socks," says Steve Hayden, chairman and CEO of BBDO Los Angeles and creator of the famous Orwellian Apple computer commercial that perked up the 1984 Super Bowl. "Now, we actually hate the last trend. It goes from the top of the chart to nothing...
...example, if they so chose, administrators could have used the card key system to track the movements of an individual student to check if he or she was going home to bed every night, or any other number of Orwellian possibilities...