Dec 26, 2013 · Despite Edward Snowden’s revelations, we are nowhere near Orwell’s vision of totalitarian dystopia envisioned in ‘1984’. This year has seen the staggering revelations of spying by the National Security Agency on targets both domestic and international.

Jun 25, 2013 · With the ongoing saga of Edward Snowden and the NSA info leak sparking sales of popular dystopain novels like Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', Andrew Liptak provides an overview of the dystopian genre

Feb 3, 2017 · Although first published almost 70 years ago, the lasting salience of this most archetypal dystopia is undeniable. In the week after Edward Snowden’s revelations of US government mass...

Doctorow, co-owner of Boing Boing, Activist in Residence at the MIT Media Lab and special consultant for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will be joined virtually by Edward Snowden to discuss dystopian futures and the struggle between the haves and the have-nots in …

May 4, 2017 · While the talk did cover dystopia and apocalypse, the last part of its title wasn’t a joke: both Snowden and Doctorow expressed cautious hopefulness about changing the world for the better....

security whistleblower Edward Snowden. We argue that the emergent concept of “exilic whistleblowing,” inspired by Hannah Arendt’s work on exile, offers novel insights.

May 3, 2017 · Doctorow, co-owner of Boing Boing, Activist in Residence at the MIT Media Lab and special consultant for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will be joined virtually by Edward Snowden to discuss dystopian futures and the struggle between the haves and the have-nots in this special LIVE event.

In the main lecture hall, a panel discussed the reality of facial recognition in the UK, while another space advertised an exploration of government power over children in “A Safeguarding Dystopia”. Snowden was aware of the tension inherent in such seeming contradictions.

Sep 16, 2019 · In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists. Snowden...

6 days ago · Snowden wryly said he encouraged her to do so and to tell Senators that he “harmed national security and the sweet, soft feelings of staff.” “This may be a rare instance where I agree with ...