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The author of Nineteen Eighty-Four did predict the development of totalitarianism, but didn't predict the development of technology.

— Ma Boyong The Silence City/The City of Silence (2005)

1984的作者预见到了专制的进步，却没有预见到技术的进步。

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One sentence: The technology is neutral, but the development of technology will make the liberal world more liberal, and the authoritarian world more authoritarian.

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