1984, Dystopia
With the rise of technology in our world we are exposed to more technological threats. The very same things that have been created to assist us in our everyday lives could be the downfall of our society. This concept of technology takeover is nothing new. We could lose our rights to our freedom and privacy. In George Orwell’s book, 1984, be constructs his idea around a dystopian world where everyone’s right to privacy are taken away and the opinions of individuals are manipulated into believing the governments ideal society is the perfect society. George Orwell had written the book as a prediction of the future for the year 1984. We may see his book as an impossible scenario, but his dystopian world may not be as far from reality as we had all once thought. Remote wireless- controlled devices are the ne subject of worry for many people. In an article by Pop Science they cover “Five ways a hacker could kill you right now”, they explain how technology that many of us see as harmless can be a great threat to all of us. Remote controlled devices are a potential target for many hackers. It has been proved that if you can control a device wirelessly so could someone else. One of the most major concerns of this is the prospect of a terrorist taking control of an airplane. Plane today can almost power them with all the computer technology they carry on board. A hijacker would only need to hack into the planes control system from the ground to gain control of the entire plane. The lives of the people on board and the potential targets on the ground would then be in the hands of an unseen hacker. Since this method of terrorism has not yet occurred it is not a large concern for many agencies. This threat may seem unlikely to them now but it is only a matter of time until this new method of terroristic warfare is played out. The concept of controlling a plane may be a large goal for many hackers but a potentially smaller goal of controlling a single vehicle is a much