1984: Quotable Quotes

Yannick Burkard

"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."

•TI Development: Speakwrite•Social/Ethical Issue: Reliability and Integrity

• Was developed to simplify and increase media production• Developed by the Inner Party and used by the Outer Party• Advantages: Greater control over society• Disadvantages: Distortion of time and reality

Speakwrite Analysis

Speakwrite Analysis

• Social impacts on human life: loss of ability to think logically and critically, doublethink, loss of sense of reality, manipulation of the past, absolute control over a person’s mind• Feasible solutions: according to the book, there are apparently no solutions, unless the inner party decides to abolish their system of control over society, along with the speakwrite technology