GEORGE ORWELL THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY

Demonstrating in 1984

George Orwell once said, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever." Orwell believed that the future of humanity lies in the suppression and control of the individual by some greater force.

The boot represents an abstract idea of subjugation and control.Orwell was referencing what already had happened in the recently defeated Nazi Germany and what was continuing to occur in the Stalinist U.S.S.R. He saw the anti-utopian expression of his own world as a world that would always be, and the future as "a boot stamping on a human face –forever."

However, from the 1970s onwards, two things occurred that would cause Orwell's message about the nature of language and power to become relics from another age: the rise of free-market neoliberalism (globalisation) and the computer revolution (also globalisation)