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Peter Huber scanned all of George Orwell's writings into his personal computer and used the machine to rewrite 1984 from the computer's point of view, mostly in Orwell's own language. Huber disputes Orwell's image of the telescreen as a tool of state repression and argues that new communications technology has opened possibilities for partnership between people and computers rather than a master and slave relationship. Chapters of fiction alternate with chapters of argument, so the familiar plot is carried forward while Huber sets out his own explanations beside it. The result is a utopian counterpart to the original, imagining a world of growing information, equal opportunity and freedom of choice.
Mark Zuckerberg read it as an alternate version of 1984 in which, with the benefit of hindsight, tools like the internet make people's lives and society better.
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Mark Zuckerberg (CEO/Facebook)
Many of us are familiar with George Orwell's book 1984. Its ideas of Big Brother, surveillance and doublespeak have become pervasive fears in our culture.
Orwell's Revenge is an alternate version of 1984. After seeing how history has actually played out, Huber's fiction describes how tools like the Internet benefit people and change society for the better.
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