1984 should be a warning, not an instruction manual
Many people think of George Orwell's 1984 mainly in terms of 'Big Brother', but Newspeak is as important and here today. When most people's only word for a concept is a product then the dangerous bit of 1984 is here. Almost everyone uses - and thinks - Excel instead of spreadsheet, Zoom instead of Video Conference, PowerPoint for Presentation Software. People might use the word Hoover for Vacuum Cleaner, but here their concept is broader.
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