Did George Orwell call it or what?

God called it ..........

The man did write more than just the one book you happened to read, genius. 

He was correct about all the control and monitoring of our lives. We now all walk around with a device with GPS tracking. Many have always-on listening devices in their homes. Smart meters informing them what you are doing. Credit cards and loyalty cards tracking your spending and location. The internet tracking everything you read. He thought it would be the government directly not realising the real powers in control are the big corporations.

Today in the news the government is saying it is afraid of encryption, how it will stop the authorities tracking your every thought. Citing child abuse rather than Big Brother.

Another prediction was Continuous War. There was for many years the Cold War. That didn't last long enough though. And for a few years the Military - Industrial Complex was scrambling for a solution, there was fear of a Peace Dividend. So now there is the continuous War on Terror.

By experience, he was certainly against totalitarianism.

Two of his earlier novels, A Clergyman's Daughter, and Keep the Aspidistra Flying, cover semi-autobiographical themes of over-work obscuring one's spirituality, and then of working-class inchoate faith as a kind of "keep a stiff upper lip" British muddling-through sensibility, respectively.

A more modern writer, Mark Prophet, wrote a similar "called it" description of mechanized man, "The Soulless One."  The concerns addressed in that book mirror those of Heidegger in his "What Is Called Thinking?"