Mark Zuckerbergs A Year of Books Selection George Orwells bleak visions of the future, one in which citizens are monitored through telescreens by an insidious Big Brother, has haunted our imagination long after the publication of 1984. Orwells dystopian image of the telescreen as a repressive instrument of state power has profoundly affected our view of technology, posing a stark confrontational question Who will be master, human or machine? Experience has shown, however, that Orwells vision of the future was profoundly and significantly wrong The conjunction of the new communications technologies has not produced a master-slave relation between person and computer, but rather exciting possibilities for partnership. In an extraordinary demonstration of the emerging supermediums potential to engender new forms of creativity, Hubers book boldly reimagines 1984 from the computers point of view.
