The Reality Of George Orwell's 1984

Scholarly analysis explicitly describes Nineteen Eighty-Four as a “technocratic dystopia,” as a counterpoint to H.G. Wells’ concept of benevolent scientific planners. Wells directly referenced “Technocracy” in The Shape of Things to Come, describing it as an attempt to restate economics on a physical-energy basis and imagining scientific elites governing a rationally ordered world, a vision very close to technocratic ideology. Orwell said that Wells “confused mechanical progress with justice, liberty, and common decency.”
Totalitarianism concerns the masses. The movie, The Matrix, emphasizes a vision of control that is miniaturized and applied to each individual: instead of one visible dictator over a mass. Each person lives inside a personalized, fully enclosing system that captures body, perception, and narrative one by one.
So why won’t writers today call 1984 a Technocratic dystopia? If you can’t see the enemy, you cannot defeat it. That enemy has infected Washington, DC, like …