Some time ago Boggart
Blog invented the Orwell - Huxley - Dick index to chart our descent
into a dystopian society that lets the oligarchs live in splendour
while the rest of us poor punters try to scrabble a living in the
lawless, uncleaned streets. We have reported on progress towards the
total surveillance society, the use of mass media in manipulating
behaviour and the development of new and ever more intrusive
technologies to report our activities and get instructions and
"advice" from data centres right in our faces.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. - Maximilien Robespierre.
