On October 2, 1984, writer and media theorist Neil Postman gave the keynote code astatine the Frankfurt Book Fair. In that address, Postman presented an effort entitled “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse successful the Age of Showbusiness.” During his talk, helium amazed the assemblage by saying helium thought the fair’s theme, which was focused connected George Orwell, was a mistake. Of the 2 defining dystopian novels of the 20th century, Postman argued that Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World got it right, not Orwell’s 1984. “Orwell missed the people completely,” helium explained successful a connection that remains, for some, arsenic...