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Jun 8, 2019 · The message: “You’ll see why 1984 won’t be like ‘1984.’ The argument recurs every decade or so: Orwell got it wrong. Things haven’t turned out that bad.
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Jun 6, 2024 · In 1984, three totalitarian states rule the world in a détente achieved by constant war. The all-seeing Party dominates a grimly uniform society in the bloc called Oceania. As a low-level Party ...
Feb 2, 2014 · With respect to the "Why 1984 won't be like 1984" line, Hayden explains that it came from a San Francisco writer named Gary Gussick during a brainstorming session. While that line was initially ...
- Yoni Heisler
Jan 31, 2014 · Art director Mike Moser and copywriter Gary Gussick created an ad in 1982 for the Apple III computer: ‘Why 1984 Won’t Be Like 1984.’ "Steve Jobs saw the concept and rejected it.
Jan 22, 2014 · On the 30th anniversary of Apple's "1984" TV spot, we look back at three decades of Mac commercials. George Orwell probably didn't know how much we'd talk about him so many years later, but our ...
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Jan 24, 2024 · And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like 1984. The screen then fades to black, and a rainbow Apple logo appears. How ‘1984’ almost didn’t happen.
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Jun 24, 2024 · Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four in a gloomy mood while he was dealing with sickness, deeply worried both for himself and for the state of the world. In particular, he was concerned that objective truth was withering away. The novel is, among many other things, about loss. The loss of truth. The loss of memory.