NSA Leak: Did George Orwell Get it Right in 1984?

Sales of George Orwell’s novel “1984”³ have spiked in recent days since Edward Snowden’s leak about NSA surveillance. Was Orwell prescient?

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with journalist and author Cory Doctorow about science fiction’s vision of the future.

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