1984 in today's society

We always tried to imagine what the future world will be like. Some have been extremely wrong and some have been frighteningly close to what reality has become. The Orwell's world of 1984 was really far away from what it really had become, but still some features of the 1984's nightmare nevertheless came true. It never was exactly how Orwell imagined it, but still there are some similarities. Here some of them. Big Brother <…

…present in today's society, but in the book these features are really exaggerated. We can easily live in our society, and we don't struggle even from those things that somehow cam true, except for, probably, example with North Korea and Soviet Union. I can't really imagine what has to happen to turn the world into nightmare of 1984. Orwell was really scared by rising of dictatorships and war and that is why his predictions were bad.