Technology
By means of telescreens and hidden microphones across
the city, the Party is able to monitor its members almost all of
the time. Additionally, the Party employs complicated mechanisms
(1984 was written
in the era before computers) to exert large-scale control on economic
production and sources of information, and fearsome machinery to
inflict torture upon those it deems enemies. 1984 reveals
that technology, which is generally perceived as working toward
moral good, can also facilitate the most diabolical evil.