| Oh, no. You can find articles toward that end as far back as the middle 1800s. I'm sure philosophers in antiquity had many ideas along those same lines.
The best source of Orwellian ideas can be found in early science fiction. Let's see..... Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a good first choice to check out.
Robert Heinlein, Arthur Clarke, Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov were all masters of science fiction. Asimov, who was also a scientist, died about 1990 and remains one of my favorite authors. |