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Isn't it terrifying how accurate George Orwell;s novel 1984 was...?

Same things that the novel talking about are happening right now! He was off by 29 years but he was still right on the money!

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  • PAULH
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Big Brother IS watching!

  • 8 years ago

    It's just like in Victor Hugo's novel The Twentieth Century. It is extremely accurate. He even predicted when the first space rocket would launch, where it would be launched from, and was only five miles off from the its landing spot!

    Source(s): The Twentieth Century by Victor Hugo
  • 8 years ago

    How about going to school via the "Skype on the computer" ? ! How many

    Millions and maybe Billions of $$$$$ would that save ? Half the # of school

    buses = a Computer for every single kid in the country ! And less polution

    which would please Al Gore to no end ! Republicans get to

    cut spending and Democrats get clean air ! Such a deal !

  • 8 years ago

    orwell got nothing right, charles dickens was nearer to the truth about bolted government departments systematical getting this stuff wrong..

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  • M W
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    How true, how true.

    bahhhh says the sheep.

    For not much longer I would suspect. Time for a new chapter.

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