Saturday, September 22, 2007
Big Brother is Watching You...and that ain't all bad!
Sometimes, Big Brother just holds your hand as you cross the street. In 1949 George Orwell published 1984, a book that has come to represent the essence of a draconian, bureaucratic socialist police state in the person of “Big Brother.” As we have ridden a technology wave into the twenty-first century, a large part of our private lives – some even say our individual freedoms – has been subsumed into an ever-growing set of databases in computers and severs the world over. Since 9-11 we have...
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