 | George Orwell - Authors, English - 1956 - 484 pages
...remained within the field of vision which the mental plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you...conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live— did live,... | |
 | James C. Goodale, Rob Frieden - Law - 2021 - 966 pages
...remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was, of course, no way of knowing whether you...conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live,... | |
 | David Lyon - Computers and civilization - 1994 - 292 pages
...remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.5 Nineteen Eighty-Four is often taken to be about the power of technology for social control... | |
 | John C. Nerone - Business & Economics - 1995 - 224 pages
...would be picked up by it. ... He could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way to know whether you were being watched at any given moment....plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was conceivable that they watched everybody all the time" (1949). Despite some anxiety over the power of... | |
 | Liberty - Computers - 1999 - 306 pages
...of fragments permits reconstruction of the entire key. SURVEILLANCE, ANONYMITY AND TRAFFIC ANALYSIS There was of course no way of knowing whether you...conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug into your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live - did live,... | |
 | Michael Heim - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 324 pages
...not unlike that of Winston Smith's telescreen in 1984, which receives and transmits simultaneously. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged...conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live,... | |
 | Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin - History - 1999 - 756 pages
...dissent. In Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell depicts a state built on almost total surveillance: There was ... no way of knowing whether you were being watched at...conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to.3 Millions in Stalin's Russia... | |
 | Dirk Nicolas Wagner - Business & Economics - 2001 - 204 pages
...remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded. he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you...system the Thought Police plugged in on any individual was guesswork. It was even conceiveable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they... | |
 | Michael Chesbro - Computers - 2001 - 180 pages
...'Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it. . . . There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. . .. You had to live-Aid live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you... | |
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There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. 
