Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Amazon sales of Orwell's 1984 rise 9,500%
Given the recent attention to the NSA news of data mining phone, e-mail and Internet records, sales of George Orwell's novel about a society in which big brother knows all has skyrocketed. Knowledge of their once secret spy program called PRISM has sparked new debate about the dangers of a government that has the ability to watch our every move.
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I found that little factoid quite interesting. That book was far ahead of it's time, for sure.
I just switched from Google to Ixquick, a search engine that does NOT track your every move. I've been telling all of my friends about it. xo
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