2019: Secret & Lies - The Hidden Power of Maths and the amount of control the Internet has over your life.
The dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell had screens and cameras monitoring and controlling every one both at home and at work.
Well isn't that what the internet is doing today ? There may be far fewer cameras than Orwell thought would be necessary but then with people putting lots of things onto social networks and operating their homes via internet connected "smart" things there isn't really a need for cameras in homes. People are typing it all in themselves
Doctor Hanna Fry sums it up very well in the Royal Institutes Christmas Lectures on BBC TV
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pmbqq/episodes/player
The dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell had screens and cameras monitoring and controlling every one both at home and at work.
Well isn't that what the internet is doing today ? There may be far fewer cameras than Orwell thought would be necessary but then with people putting lots of things onto social networks and operating their homes via internet connected "smart" things there isn't really a need for cameras in homes. People are typing it all in themselves
Doctor Hanna Fry sums it up very well in the Royal Institutes Christmas Lectures on BBC TV
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pmbqq/episodes/player
