Re: Coming soon, from your benevolent Government
Indeed...
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Might the reduction of roaming costs also be connected to that? And the EU policy change to now be able to login (and view) your media accounts where ever you are? You can travel conveniently with your Oyster card which you pay/ fill up with your credit card. Unless you of course travel in your car with the soon obligatory eCall system, after you filled it up with Apple Pay paid petrol. But of course that is just paranoia, thinking someone would snoop and judge your behaviour in that kind of way. Just like it is that there are so many cameras everywhere, that a person is able to travel/ move without being "recorded" somewhere some time.
<i>Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing.</i>
So worried about retina/ biometry/ IR camera unlocked terminals, a "service" making sure that you are really you? Sure, you can call them telescreens if you want. Just as we might ponder on the fact whether there already is something there as a Thought Police, and surprise ourselves with who visionary Orwell was in 1948. Ever changing enemies and wars, started for ever changing reasons... Or the fact that history and/ or "truth" can be "corrected"; Ol' George would have loved PhotoShop! Doubleplusgood!
Beauty of our everyday reality however is, the "Party" isn't distributing the Telescreens.
In line with our civilisation we pay for them ourselves after marketing convinced us that we can't live without them...
101 anyone..?
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
