George Orwell: Eric Arthur Blair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell, http://www.george-orwell.org/l_biography.html

This is a very interesting site to visit about this subject, www.orwelltoday.com but there are many more.

 http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com, www.george-orwell.org, http://www.online-literature.com/orwell

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/jun/11/george-orwell-prism-big-brother-1984

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/magda-abufadil/dear-nsa-george-orwell-is_b_3449913.html

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/11/sales-of-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four-soar

The present rate of surveillance technology & Big Data means that almost everything on the planet will have a digital file easily by 2049, if not before.
http://symbolic-resonance.blogspot.ca/2013/06/nineteen-eighty-four-1949.html

Unless human rights & freedoms are guaranteed, the world could eventually become a full immersion totalitarian system before 2050. Original editions & digital copies of the 1984 book might become censored or outlawed by 2049.

BIG DATA

In the pre-supercomputer age BB was part of the classic cautionary tale a few decade before BD
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/where-to-draw-the-line-on-government-surveillance-032133024.html
From Big_Brother to Big_data, its only natural that any country & corporation create its own BD base.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/feds-want-extend-blanket-permanent-secrecy-over-11-170008696.html
But unless reasonable protective laws are maintained BD & BB will become more intertwined.