1984 - published on this day 62 years ago. What does it tell us about today?

Publish Date: 8 June 1949

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

When I read the book in the year 1984, I sort of understood the plot. At the time however, I wasn't truly aware of how accurate a world Orwell was warning would come.

Today, I'm more and more shocked at not how close things are today, but really how far beyond they are now.

One can only wonder what someone like Orwell would make of the world today.