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In what year was George Orwell's novel featuring ever-present home surveillance screens first published, well before TV sets were common in British households?
Answer
1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, at a time when television ownership in the UK was still rare, making Orwell's vision of home surveillance screens especially prescient.
💡 Did you know?
George Orwell's 1984 described surveillance screens that watched citizens constantly—written before television became widespread in British homes.
Other options people guess
- 1945
- 1953
- 1956
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- george-orwell
- publication-history
- 20th-century
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