In fact, whenever you bring it up in a debate about surveillance, people instantaneously dismiss it as inapplicable, and what they say is, "Oh, well in '1984,' there were monitors in people's homes, they were being watched at every given moment, and that has nothing to do with the surveillance state that we face."
De hecho, cada vez iniciado un debate sobre la vigilancia, la gente instantáneamente lo descarta como inaplicable, y lo que dicen es, "ah, bueno en ´1984´, hubo monitores en los hogares de la gente, que estaban siendo observados en cada momento, y no tiene nada que ver con el estado de vigilancia que nos enfrentamos".