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…ic.” – is that really a deal you would have accepted? But if you use a GPS mapping system on your phone, you have. That Orwell’s sick prognostication of technocratic life would be one you’d embrace? That it would describe a desireable feature of network life? “You had to live – d...

…umers of Russian media have told foreign journalists of fears that “fascism” has come to power in Ukraine. 10 In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the Ministry of Truth advanced what today would be called a regime narrative, with accounts of never-ending conflict abroad and t...

…urn provides easy—all too easy?—reproduction of artworks with almost perfect fidelity. But there is a huge hidden cost. Orwell’s Ministry of Truth is now a practical possibility. AI techniques for creating all-but-undetectable forgeries of “recordings” of encounters are now becom...

…te communications, allowing it to detect dissent and subversion as it arises and make resistance to state power futile. Orwell’s telescreens are the prototype, and in 1976 Joseph Weizenbaum, one of the gloomiest tech prophets of all time, warned my class of graduate students not...

…te communications, allowing it to detect dissent and subversion as it arises and make resistance to state power futile. Orwell’s telescreens are the prototype, and in 1976 Joseph Weizenbaum, one of the gloomiest tech prophets of all time, warned my class of graduate students not...

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the hero of George Orwell’s novel 1984. The magazine was called “2600:

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…porations: In totalitarian states, or even nominally democratic ones, governments know things about their citizens that Orwell could not have imagined. The use they make of this information may not always be transparent or possible to counter. The prospect of AI for military pur...