It's actually scary that in 1949 someone wrote a book and pretty much described what world we are now living in.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published in June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Check out the Wikipedia page.
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