2. "Who controls the past controls the future;
who controls the present controls the past."
3. • TI Development: Speakwrite
• Social/Ethical Issue: Reliability and Integrity
4. • Was developed to simplify and increase media production
• Developed by the Inner Party and used by the Outer Party
• Advantages: Greater control over society
• Disadvantages: Distortion of time and reality
Speakwrite Analysis
5. Speakwrite Analysis
• Social impacts on human life: loss of ability to think
logically and critically, doublethink, loss of sense of
reality, manipulation of the past, absolute control
over a person’s mind
• Feasible solutions: according to the book, there are
apparently no solutions, unless the inner party
decides to abolish their system of control over
society, along with the speakwrite technology