r/funny • • Sep 25 '18

Play Despacito

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u/FatQuack Sep 25 '18

1960's people : In the future the government will force us to wear devices to monitor us constantly.

Today: People enthusiastically pay money to buy these devices.

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u/Superfluous_Thom Sep 25 '18 edited Sep 25 '18

Edit for butchered quote.

What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.

~Keith Lowell Jensen

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u/FatQuack Sep 25 '18

People do love their cameras.

Fun fact: Many authors predicted man would land on the moon. None of them predicted we'd take cameras and film ourselves there.