Nineteen eighty-four unplugged [Big Brother]

When George Orwell was writing 'Nineteen Eighty- Four' in the late 1940s, his readers would not have expected detailed exposition of the technology that underpins its main themes and plot points. Orwell himself was not interested in technology in the same way that his sometime hero HG Wells was, and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' contains scant detail about how things actually work.