In fact, whenever you bring it up in a debate about surveillance, people instantaneously dismiss it as inapplicable, and what they say is, "Oh, well in '1984,' there were monitors in people's homes, they were being watched at every given moment, and that has nothing to do with the surveillance state that we face." That is an actual fundamental misapprehension of the warnings that Orwell issued in "1984." The warning that he was issuing was about a surveillance state not that monitored everybody at all times, but where people were aware that they could be monitored at any given moment.
De hecho, cada vez iniciado un debate sobre la vigilancia, la gente instantáneamente lo descarta como inaplicable, y lo que dicen es, "ah, bueno en ´ 1984 ´, hubo monitores en los hogares de la gente, que estaban siendo observados en cada momento, y no tiene nada que ver con el estado de vigilancia que nos enfrentamos". Eso es un malentendido fundamental de las advertencias de que Orwell planteó en "1984". La advertencia de que estaba emitiendo trataba de un estado de vigilancia que no supervisa a todo el mundo en todo momento, pero donde la gente era consciente que podía ser controlada en un momento dado.