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A row of charcoal pawns on a chessboard, with one mint-green pawn stepped forward, facing a row of old surveillance cameras on stands all turned to watch it

An Opening Gambit

The world has changed. Or has it? The future, as foreseen by George Orwell in his novel, “1984”, looks increasingly similar to our current reality. He wrote “1984” in 1948 and it was metaphorically true even back then. Recently it has become more substantively true with the advent of the internet, Facebook and Alexa, and…