Asimov’s 1980 review of 1984 called Orwell scientifically ignorant
In 1980, Isaac Asimov published a negative review of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in the New Yorker. His central complaint was that Orwell didn’t understand technology. The telescreens that Big Brother uses to monitor citizens struck Asimov as crude and unimaginative, the work of someone who “didn’t know…
