In many ways, Orwell's view of the future has come true. Although we do
             not live in a world dominated by Communist super-powers, there are many
             aspects of our society that are prophesied in the book.
             Take, for example, the three land masses used in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
             There is Oceania, which encompasses the Americas and Great Britain,
             Eurasia, which is Europe and the Near East, and Eastasia, which is the
             rest of Asia and Australia. These enormous blocks of land could now be
             said to exist, if not by borders, then by economic boundaries. The North
             America has free trade policies, as does the European union. These make
             North America and Europe the most powerful economic centres on Earth.
             However, the emergence of the Far Eastern economies shows that the world
             is slowly being divided into the lines that Orwell set.
             However, the more that we grow apart, the closer that we come together.
             The Far East is said to be, "Westernising", in that it is taking Western
             (i.e. Europe and the USA) ideas about economics, and putting them into
             practice. The success of this can be seen by how much fluctuations in,
             for example, the South Korean stock exchange affect the markets in the
             This global integration means that we are heading down a dangerous road.
             Unlike Orwell's vision of a one-party dictatorship controlling hundreds
             of millions, we get instead the world being controlled by the stock
             markets, and fluctuations in currencies. This is extremely dangerous, as
             it means that huge multi-national financiers, such as Soros can make or
             break a countries economy. An example of this is the events of black
             Monday, when trading led by Soros' company effectively brought about the
             collapse of the Pound, and heralded the start of a long recession in the
             UK. There is too much power being put into the hands of men such as
             these, and un-scrupulous they can be too. ...