Shhhhh - your TV could be listening: Samsung issues warning over Smart TVs
Posted by Rocky_Road 9 years, 2 months ago to Science
The telescreens in Orwell's 1984 also listened....
“He thought of the telescreen with its never-sleeping ear. They could spy upon you night and day, but if you kept your head you could still outwit them. With all their cleverness they had never mastered the secret of finding out what another human being was thinking. . . . Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make?"
― George Orwell, 1984
“He thought of the telescreen with its never-sleeping ear. They could spy upon you night and day, but if you kept your head you could still outwit them. With all their cleverness they had never mastered the secret of finding out what another human being was thinking. . . . Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make?"
― George Orwell, 1984
I have noticed that my TV will automatically shut off within one minute of it thinking that I have woken up. Maybe it is listening!
See if you can get her to read Brave New World by Huxley.
I don't think she has read Brave New World yet. I had to do so when I was in high school.
More and more I am shocked at what's developing here.