How accurate was Orwell in his vision of the future, and in what ways does our contemporary society compare to his idea of society in 1984?

We don't
suffer the same level of material
deprivation of Outer Party members and the proles
in ;
in fact, many areas experience a high level of material comfort. Also,
we
don't live in socialist totalitarian regimes, where the government owns the means
of
production. 

However,was prescient about two items that
plague us in the
modern world. The first is surveillance. Not only have we
learned that the government engaged in
illegal domestic spying on US citizens
after 9/11/2001, we know that we are also legally under
surveillance in many
ways. Data is collected about citizens based...