Orwell's Revenge
The 1984 Palimpsest
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ISBN
9781501127700
Bindwijze
Paperback
Taal
Engels
Auteur
Uitgeverij
Free Press
Jaar van uitgifte
2015
Aantal pagina's
384
Waar gaat het over?
Mark Zuckerberg's 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 of1984. 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 supermedium's potential to engender new forms of creativity, Hubers book boldly reimagines1984 from the computer's point of view. After first scanning all of Orwells writings into his personal computer, Huber used the machine to rewrite the book completely, for the most part using Orwells own language. Alternating fiction and non-fiction chapters, Huber advances Orwells plot to a surprising new conclusion while seamlessly interpolating his own explanations and arguments. The result is a fascinating utopian work which envisions a world at our fingertips of ever-increasing information, equal opportunity, and freedom of choice.
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