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George Orwell's Big Brother, book cover.

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Wikimedia Foundation. (2021, October 21). Big brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four). Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four).

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George Orwell’s novel Big Brother is commonly cited as the current state of the Information Age. It describes a manipulative authority that uses intense surveillance, is this metaphor all-encompassing?  What other metaphors might be useful?

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