Orwell's Revenge (51 page)

IBM shed 100,000 employees:
“Deconstructing the Computer Industry,”
Business Week,
November 23, 1992, p. 90.

collapsed to $52 by years end 1992:
“The End of I.B.M.'s Overshadowing Role,”
New York Times,
December 20, 1992, 3: 2.

the New York Times would announce “The End of I.B.M.'s Overshadowing Role”:
New York Times,
December 20, 1992, 3: 2.

and faster networked workstations:
“The End of I.B.M.'s Overshadowing Role,” New
York Times,
December 20, 1992, 3: 2.

IBM's advertising now declares:
IBM advertisement,
Forbes,
November 23, 1992, p. 202.

were digitally switched:
Vietor, “AT&T and the Public Good,” p. 52.

different media no longer hold:
Pool,
Technologies of Freedom,
pp. 2627. A major study by Congress's Office of Technology Assessment reached identical conclusions in 1990. “With digitalization all of the media become translatable into each other—computer bits migrate merrily—and they escape from their traditional means of transmission. A movie, phone call, letter, or magazine article may be sent digitally via phone line, coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, microwave, satellite, the broadcast air, or a physical storage medium such as tape or disk.” Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress,
Critical Connections
(Washington, D.C: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990), p. 50.

hundreds of color television signals:
Although the present capacity is 24,000 simultaneous conversations, “[e]xperts suggest a theoretical carrying capacity of about 600 million [simultaneous] conversations.” Marshall Yates, “The Promise of Fiber Optics,”
Public Utilities Fortnightly
August 16, 1990, p. 14.

Advertising,
89
,
221
,
222
,
226
,
313
,
346

Aeroplanes,
57
,
99
,
298

Alexandria,
223

America,
90
,
126
,
238
–39,
242
,
244
,
314
,
350
–52

Anarchy,
218

Animal Farm
(Orwell),
34

Antisemitism,
316

Antitrust suits,
268
,
269
,
276
,
278
.
See also
Monopoly

Apple Computer,
234
,
240
,
261
,
278
,
346

Armstrong, Martin,
357

Arts,
70
,
74
,
121
,
122
,
124
,
226
–27,
249
,
306
–7,
323
,
328
,
347

“As I Please” (Orwell),
255

Astor, David,
252

AT&T,
276
,
278
,
279

Atom bomb,
45
,
99
,
228
,
237
,
239
,
290

Audion,
263
,
265

Automobiles,
57
,
224
,
252

Bardeen, John,
271

Basic English,
225
–26,
344

BBC,
9
–10,
71
–73,
100
,
124
,
221
,
226
,
252
,
257
,
291
,
292
,
308
,
310
,
345
,
355
–56,
357

Bell, Alexander Graham,
262

Bell Laboratories,
71
,
270
–72,
282
–83

Bell System,
261
,
263
,
265
,
267
–73,
274
–79,
282
–83,
359

Bernal, J. D.,
10
,
292

Betrayal,
3
,
242
–44,
311

Bible,
90
–91,
246
–47,
260
,
354
,
357

Big Brother: contrasted with capitalism,
221
,
222

decay of socialism into,
218

and economic socialism,
250

and London life,
3

as memorable term,
2

power of,
4
,
8
,
9
,
58
,
247
,
248

and telescreen,
23
–25,
35
,
43
,
57
,
58
,
227
,
237

Winston's brainwashing into love of,
7

Blair, Eric,
9
,
234
,
255
,
264
,
265
,
267
,
268
,
311
.
See also
Orwell, George

Blair, Richard,
316

Blythe, Kenneth,
5
,
6
,
127
,
255

Bombers,
35

Book-of-the-Month Club,
288

Books: cheaper books as advantage,
124
,
337
–38

collaboration in writing of,
255
,
328

machine- written,
8
–9,
257
,
291

Bracken, Brendan,
9
,
292

Brainwashing,
6
–7

Brattain, Walter,
271

Brave
New
World
(Huxley),
33
,
58
,
237

Breech-loading gun,
236

Britain.
See
England

British Empire,
225
,
316

Broadcasting.
See
Radio

Television

Building Societies,
88

Bureaucrats,
124

Burgess, Anthony,
233
,
292
,
346

Burgess, Guy,
10
,
292

Burma,
247
,
252
,
267
,
349

Burmese Days
(Orwell),
235
,
246
,
258
,
291
–92,
308
,
325

Burnham, James,
55
–57,
58
,
302

Cable television,
234
,
269
,
282

Caliph Omar,
223

Capitalism: compared with power of law,
217

decline of,
55
,
99
–100,
124
,
125
,
226
,
251

in early nineteenth-century America,
90

in England,
124

and fascism,
5
,
88
–89,
313

Lenin on,
269

and mechanical progress,
70
–71,
99
,
238
,
343

and monopoly,
100
,
220

Orwell's hatred of,
88
–89,
124
,
219
–20,
222
,
226
,
247
,
251
,
313

rentier capitalism,
249
–50,
251
,
355

as slavery,
121

telescreen as savior of,
226

versus centralized control,
224
–25.
See also
Free market

Carterfone
ruling,
273

CD-ROM,
280

Cellular telephone,
234
,
274
,
282
–83

Censorship,
89
,
90

Centralism,
101

Centralization,
44
–45,
55
–56,
89
,
222
,
224
–25,
234

Centrex services,
275

Chaplin, Charlie,
297

Charrington,
67
,
223
,
243

Chesnut tree as metaphor,
318

Churchill, Winston,
225
–26

Cinematograph,
72
,
126
,
226

Civil liberty,
121
–22

Clergyman's Daughter, A
,
291
,
353
,
358

“Clink” (Orwell),
217

Coase, Ronald,
221
–22,
225
,
234
,
250
,
334
,
342
–43

Coaxial cable,
270
,
271
,
283
,
284

Collectivism,
45
,
99
–101,
121
–25,
220
,
225
,
234
,
246
,
250
,
322
,
353

Colonialism,
225
,
316
,
355

Coming Up for Air
(Orwell),
34
,
34
–35,
56
,
125
–26,
358

Communications system.
See
Telecommunications

Communists, fear of,
238
–39,
348
–49

Community antenna television network,
271

Computer industry,
224
,
261
,
264
–65,
268
–269,
272
,
274
–80,
284

Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company,
264

Connolly, Cyril,
10

Constitution of Liberty, The
(Hayek),
218

Convergence,
220
,
227
,
282
–84

Cooper, Duff,
9
–10

“Cooper's Snoopers,”
227

Corning,
238

Corporations,
225
,
342

“Cost of Letters, The” (Orwell),
123
–24

Crick, Bernard,
356

Crimethink,
23

Crossgates,
245
–46,
248
,
251
–52

Cruise missile,
239

Dali, Salvador,
34
,
35
,
89
,
222
,
235
,
241

Darkness at Noon
(Koestler),
58

Darwin, Charles,
225

Data communications,
280
–81

Death, thoughts on,
339
,
340

Decentralization,
224
–25,
228
,
279

Declaration of Independence,
242
n

Defoe, Daniel,
327

Democracy,
56
,
90
,
228

Democratic socialism,
89
–91,
121
,
125
,
239
,
250

Dial, of telescreen,
25

Dickens, Charles,
69
,
235
,
236
,
294
,
319
,
348
,
355

Dictatorship,
56
.
See also
Totalitarianism Digital Equipment,
279

Digital switches,
281

Dirty crockery, Orwell's essay on,
44
,
99
,
223

Dishwashing,
44
,
99
,
223

Dneiper dam,
35

Doublethink: frequency of occurrence of term,
24

on light,
318

in 1984,
2
,
4
,
24
,
257

of Orwell,
122
–27,
241
–45,
252

and
Orwell's Revenge
,
257

and review of Russell's
Power
,
67
–68

on socialism,
122
–25

on success of J984,
233
,
240

on telescreen,
222
–28

Down and Out in Paris and London
(Orwell),
268

Dreams,
320
,
321

Duckspeak,
219

Ear trumpets,
24

Eastasia,
5
–6,
68

Eavesdropping,
24

Eckert, J. Presper,
276

Economic justice,
218
,
249
–52

Education,
6
,
56
,
127
,
228

Efficiency,
101
,
250

Electromagnetic microphone,
262

Electronic switching,
271
,
275
–76,
281

England: class privilege in,
124

colonialism of,
225
,
316
,
344
,
355

democratic socialism in,
90

Fascism in,
289
–90

Labour Party in,
124
,
227
,
346

Ministry of Information in,
124
,
225
,
227
,
292

need for decentralization in,
224

in 1984,
5
–6,
24
,
242
,
290

Orwell on,
241
–42,
244
–45,
316
,
323

Orwell's prediction of losing World War II,
100
–101,
301
,
317

police force in,
334