I concur, we are definitely seeing signs of both. We’re losing civil liberties for the sake of security, just look at the number of CCTV cameras in London, and I know plenty of people who don’t read books, because there is too much other media bombarding them with utter crap like ‘reality tv’ (which is a stupid name for something that is not even remotely real).

Neither to nearly the extend of 1984 or a Brave New World, but still, it looks like we are slowly moving towards both.