The Net's End

In the past, an author named George Orwell wrote a novel called 1984 which was based on that time period of course. But fantasizing about the future is the only thing that he did, harmless as it was. After the book was published in 1949, the term “Big Brother” was born due to the totalitarian functionalist society created inside the plot of his book. The society itself was constantly monitored by the government and nothing could be done to retaliate. Now if that was a prediction about 1984, how does that do justice to are present day, in 2008?

Well, believe it or not, in our age we have some major corporations that (controversially) have more power than the government does. A perfect example of this is Google. Now when you think of Google, you think “Oh hey! That’s the search engine almost everyone uses!!” Of course here is a blast from the past for ya: If you didn’t know this already, this blog is hosted by Google with Google ads and a Google search bar on the right side of the page. So yea, its WAY MORE than just a search engine.

Here is an excellent spoof of Google done by the New York Times:

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