Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest

Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest

Mark Zuckerberg's â€˜A Year of Booksâ€™ Selection

George Orwellâ€™s 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 of 1984. Orwellâ€™s 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 Orwellâ€™s 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, Huberâ€™s book boldly reimagines 1984 from the computer's point of view. After first scanning all of Orwellâ€™s writings into his personal computer, Huber used the machine to rewrite the book completely, for the most part using Orwellâ€™s own language. Alternating fiction and non-fiction chapters, Huber advances Orwellâ€™s 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Free Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-05-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Free Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-05-05
Format	Kindle eBook

Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest

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