Word: telescreens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...methods for the networks, is concerned that the sight of a camera on top of their TVs might make people self-conscious, affecting their viewing habits and skewing the results. And some would be sure to see in the new device a computer-age version of Big Brother's telescreen -- the two-way television that monitored the citizenry in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four...
...Observers will continue to play intellectual games comparing Big Brother to Big Government, but when Orwell was describing the destruction of human will, the Department of Agriculture was not exactly what he had in mind. Unexciting though it may be to concede, the upcoming year will produce no mass telescreen surveillance, no Ministry of Truth...