On 1984 coming true

 With our current technology, short of Brain Computer Interface, there is only one way for 1984 (the book) to come true.

That is, if people stop remembering. If they depend on the internet for everything, every piece of information. The internet can be changed in a short time. History can be altered really easily using Wikipedia. (As some of us already know).

I had this realisation while teaching my son the importance of remembering key figures. He didn't remember any because his school curriculum does not need the remembering of the numbers.

The idea was noble - children should understand and not cram. But the outcome, as outcomes usually are, was rather unintended. He thought Ganga was the longest river in the subcontinent (it is actually the shortest among Indus, Brahmaputra, and Ganges river systems).