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“Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision … people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”

— Neil Postman proposes that it was Huxley, not Orwell, who saw our doomed future. Read an extract.