Not a decade, year or even week goes by without something happening that brings us back to George Orwell’s novel-world 1984. At around that time, Amazon introduced an update of Astro, its household robot, and received complaints because, as one user explained, “its sharp tracking system for monitoring people was almost creepy.” In late October, speaking about Ukraine, a Russian legislator noted, “The special military operation not only takes place on the battlefields, but also in people’s minds, in their souls.” That same week, it was discovered that the Chinese government had set up “police stations” in nearly 20 countries to monitor its citizens abroad. A still shot from Michael Radford's film '1984', based on George Orwell's novel of the same name.
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