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Content aside, this article is really well formatted. Going photo by photo, camera by camera puts me in the shoes of the author, and frankly gives me the same feeling I had when I first read 1984 (especially when he mentioned the sky was fittingly grey).

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I just country the number of cameras i saw while going to lunch from my office. It's an under 300 meter walk, and I saw 16 cameras, in a supposedly privacy friendly country like Germany.

Which city?

I'm pretty sure that in 1984 only a relatively small part of the population, the Inner Party, were constantly monitored.

Not quite, but you are close. It wasn't the whole population in 1984 that was monitored. Inner Party members were monitored, but could turn off telescreens. Outer Party members had to have them on all the time. Proles weren't monitored. The idea was to monitor middle class as it was considered to be necessary for lower class to revolt. Upper class had no reason to revolt as they were in power.

I'm leaving this comment mostly for people downvoting OP.

Its more than a decade since I last read it, but I am fairly sure the point was everyone was monitored. There was no escape.

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