Titled 2021, the book has been re-released by cybersecurity and privacy experts at Avast to contextualise the novel into a modern setting and to highlight the complexities and dangers of online surveillance in today’s society. That’s the reasoning behind a recent revision and re-release of this sci-fi dystopian classic, released this year. Because while we might not have an official “Big Brother” or “Thought Police” yet, digital citizens in 2021 are all-too familiar with what it feels like to live in a surveillance society. Thirty-five years later, however, it looks like he might have hit the mark - just a few years off. In the novel, Great Britain - known as Air Strip One - is ruled by a totalitarian government which attempts to control not just the actions, but even the thoughts of the populace.īy the time the year 1984 actually rolled around, Orwell’s dystopia hadn’t quite come to fruition. George Orwell’s classic book, 1984 - written in 1949 - envisioned a dystopian future in which human beings are constantly monitored and surveilled.
Announcing the re-release of the sci-fi dystopian classic to highlight the complexities and dangers of online surveillance in today’s society
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