For the first half century after publication, Orwell's dystopia, 1984, was perceived as a wicked satire on communist regimes.
But, alas, the prophetic details of the world of "1984" are increasingly becoming a reality of the modern, as it were, decommunized world.
The fantastic realities invented by George Orwell for Britain in 1984 have long been included in the cultural code of a modern person...