Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 14-05-2008, 07:36   #6550
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by James_Firth View Post
Years since I read it, maybe I will have to again sometime...
In my opinion everyone in the UK should read it. Never has 1984 been more apposite, if not prophetic, than today. It almost makes me wonder if Orwell was either a time traveller or had incredible precognitive powers. What would he have thought about the Internet, I wonder?

The way things are going in this country - our efforts notwithstanding - if anyone wrote a sequel (updated to accommodate modern advances), it'd be difficult to distinguish it from a traveller's guide to the UK...
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