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."
Cada cop que se'n parla en un debat sobre vigilància, la gent la descarta instantàniament com a inaplicable, i el que diuen és, "OH, però a "1984", hi havia  monitors a casa de la gent, els estaven observant a cada moment, i això no té res a veure amb l'estat de vigilància que tenim al davant."