[ale] OT:Has "1984" finally arrived?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 14:13 -0400, Robert Heaven wrote: 
> I sometimes wonder: Are we living in Orwell's "1984"? Or, Huxley's "Brave New World"? Or a combination of both.

With a little Fahrenheit 451 in the mix as well with little regard to
how well that works with the Internet.

> -Robert

Regards,
Mike

> On Aug 5, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > With the recent revelations of the NSA and Friends big snoop projects
> > it appears that I'm not the only one questioning whether or not George
> > Orwell's novel "1984" that he wrote in 1949 has actually come true.
> > Here is a link to a cnn.com article with the same question.
> > 
> > http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/03/opinion/beale-1984-now/index.html?eref=igoogledmn_topstories
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sent from my home PC running Fedora19 to you and NSA, FBI, CIA, HSA
> > and God only knows who else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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