“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
He predicted even more than what people think:
Two-way television that watches you just as you watch it.
Cameras everywhere, on every street, in every building, in every hallway, even in the forests.
The ‘SPEAKWRITE’ machine.
MASS ENTERTAINMENT becoming the center of people’s lives.
A continuous state of war going on somewhere.
NEWSPEAK where words are re-defined or outright eliminated due to their being declared obscene.