On occasion, I get distracted by Yahoo’s little entertainment headlines. They usually turn out to be a waste of time, but this piece on how futuristic movies got it wrong has some real gems. In describing George Orwell’s “Big Brother” piece, we are given some keen insight:
George Orwell envisioned a future dominated by a government organization called the Ministry of Love that intrusively monitors the actions of its citizens, political nonsense that spews forth from massive TVs, and songs that are written by computers. Instead we have the Department of Homeland Security, 24-hour cable news in high definition, and T-Pain. Thank God we dodged that bullet.