Cut to the 21st century and people everywhere are walking around like automatons taking orders from first, Apple’s guru Steve Jobs, who passed away in 2011, and now Tim Cook. When Apple issues a new iPhone, people drop what they’re doing and wait in line for days for the new gadget. When Jobs spoke, people sat spellbound in the audience just like in the 1984<\/em> commercial. Now, Cook does the same. Oh, the Irony!<\/p>\n We’re not saying all tech is bad.\u00a0The Internet is clearly a wonderful thing. No longer does one have to trek to a library to do research. One can find the weather forecast instantaneously or watch world events happening in real time.\u00a0 But the fact is that we don’t control technology anymore; technology controls us. \u00a0We are truly slaves to technology. And the people who are in control of our society are taking complete advantage.\u00a0 At any given time, you can be tracked down and located. One disturbing instance in Orwell’s book 1984 <\/em>was that people couldn’t even enjoy their own privacy. Big Brother was always watching them and knew where they were at all times. Well, Big Brother is watching us now and it’s not just the government. Tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google wield enormous power and influence.\u00a0Our society is permanently distracted by social media and until we learn to control our addiction, our society will continue to suffer.\u00a0<\/em>When the measure of a human being is how many friends one has on Facebook or how many followers you have on Twitter\u00a0then something is seriously wrong.<\/strong> We need to break free from this conformity and regain our independence or else accept that the dystopian future of 1984<\/em> has come to pass.<\/p>\n We’re sick of Trump and his horde of gun loving, conservative Republican malcontents, so we’re doing a palette cleanser today and instead focus on how technology has transformed our society and not always for the best. We’ve commented before about the ubiquity of cell phones and how we’re completely and totally distracted by all things … Continue reading “We’re Living In 1984”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,963,35],"tags":[1693,1695,1688,1575,1696,1699,74,73,139,1280,1265,1697,20,389,1698,774,629,1689,1690,199,1691,98,296,1694,1692,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5852"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5923,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5852\/revisions\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Humanity](\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ironymoderndaytechnologyautomatons.jpg\")