Orwell’s Dystopian Future Is Almost Here: A Conversation With Glenn Greenwald

"So, a lot of people said, [our world is] not like ‘1984’ because not every single one of our emails is being read and or every one of our calls are being listened to because nobody could possibly be doing all that. But, as Greenwald rightly pointed out, in Orwell’s world, 'nobody actually knew whether they were being watched at all times. In fact they didn’t know if they were ever being watched.'”