more. The writer Rebecca Solnit calls Google “Big Hipster Brother.” She wrote about another of those companies, Apple, on the thirtieth anniversary of its most famous commercial: “Maybe Apple’s ‘1984’ ad is the beginning of Silicon Valley’s fantasy of itself as the solution, not the problem—a dissident rebel, not the rising new Establishment.” Citing government surveillance, hacking, revenge porn and iPhone addiction, Solnit argued that the “Orwell was wrong” triumphalism of the 1980s had been at best premature, if not dishonest.
