When Google Met WikiLeaks - Cyberpunk Dystopia

Julian Assange Talks to Vogue.com About His New Book, When Google Met WikiLeaks
OCTOBER 24, 2014 10:53 AM
by DW GIBSON



You make a few references to Orwell, and sometimes the way you write about the Internet makes me feel like we’re walking right into a Philip K. Dick book.

"Yeah, that’s right. The cyberpunk dystopia is here. Well, we’ve walked into a lot of things. In the introduction, I cite what I find to be Orwell’s most prescient and interesting essay from 1945, “The Atomic Bomb and You,” where he lays out and predicts the various strategic realities that stem from the invention of the atomic bomb, which held true for the next 50 years. Orwell laid it out very publicly what was likely to happen and it didn’t stop it from happening. But on the other hand, we didn’t end up with World War III either. And not ending up with World War III isn’t something that just happened. A lot of people fought quite hard to educate everyone about what the dynamics were that were occurring what everyone was entering into and to try and lay down some safeguards to prevent the world from ending up in Armageddon."

read here:
http://www.vogue.com/3300203/julian-assange-interview-when-google-met-wikileaks/