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Re:Google Home: An Insight Into a 4-Year-Old’s Mind by StevePerkins on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:48AM (#14374373)
> In 1984 people were freakin' forced to have one.

Huxley always seemed to have a better handle than Orwell did on what makes people tick.

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Re:Google Home: An Insight Into a 4-Year-Old’s Mind by icebraining on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:57AM (#14374413)
I think they were describing different societies, and the one you're living in just happens to resemble Huxley's more.
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Re:Google Home: An Insight Into a 4-Year-Old’s Mind by cousin_it on Friday May 19, 2017 @07:15AM (#14374489)
Yeah, for folks living in the USSR or East Germany it seems like Orwell was closer to the truth.
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Re:Google Home: An Insight Into a 4-Year-Old’s Mind by stlHusker on Friday May 19, 2017 @09:32AM (#14375422)
From the long view, no. Regimes that use pain as control inevitably break as at a certain point, people will no longer willing give that up. This is history.

Walk down to a local AA meeting and see people who at some point willingly made a decision and who are now, unfortunately controlled by it. This will always exist.

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