Googling “Big Brother” returns 43,500,000 results but Googling “big brother” Orwell removes all but 623,000 results. Big Brother is a character in George Orwell‘s novel 1984 (aka Ninety Eighty Four.) Published a year before Orwell’s death in 1949, the book has a clear doom-and-gloom (dystopic) view of future society. Orwell perceived a future in which… Continue reading Big Brother: shovel or snowman?