For a text to be successful, elements of the setting must be recognisable.
The novel Nineteen Eighty-four written by George Orwell is a piece of writing that has transcended throughout the years and is has become more and more recognisable even now in the present just as it was in 1949 when this book was published. Orwell not only made close references to the world in 1949 but also the world we live in today.
Surveillance / CCTV & Telescreens
In Recent society we have been slowly becoming very limited with our own privacy. George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four introduced his idea of telescreens. A tool used for the state to spy on the people to make sure they are not talking down on the state. In our recent times in 2019 we have been introduced to CCTV cameras around the globe.