![]() ![]() The main technological advancement there is the two-way telescreen, essentially an electronic peephole. His imagined London is merely a drabber, more joyless version of the city, still recovering from the Blitz, where he was living in the mid-1940s, just before beginning the novel. Orwell didn’t really have much feel for the future, which to his mind was just another version of the present. TWO months ago I would have said that not only is “Brave New World” a livelier, more entertaining book than “1984,” it’s also a more prescient one. Charles McGrath The totalitarian rulers in Huxley’s book give their citizens exactly what they think they want. ![]()
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