Mary loves the ease and fun of being connected. In fact, she cannot imagine a world when people were not connected. She is quick to respond to and adopt new technologies. She often wonders what new delights would be invented in the future. There is a niggling fear in her mind—will her profiles and pictures be hacked, or used by an unscrupulous person or organization? She gets concerned with every report of hacking and even leaking of celebrities’ profiles. She had read a book sometime back—1984 by George Orwell— in which all information about people was controlled and used by an autocratic government. She wonders whether the future will be a consumer utopia or will it be an Orwellian nightmare, where everything ...
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