Why People Born After 1995 Can't Understand the Book '1984'

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Submission + - Why People Born After 1995 Can't Understand the Book '1984' (cracked.com)

Submitted by sandbagger on Monday September 09, 2013 @06:55PM

sandbagger writes: If you're under 20, you've grown up with the internet and after the cold war. People who are older than that grew up in a world where there was privacy and 1984 was a cautionary tale about having cameras in your house recording everything. The writers of the humour magazine discuss the generation gap in this podcast.

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