1984

When I went to college in 1963, George Orwell’s “1984” was required reading in the English classes. The futuristic book had one overriding thought and that was that “Big Brother is Watching You”. They say only a fool makes predictions about something that will happen in their lifetimes. Orwell was safe, he died a year after the book was published in 1949. We are a long time past 1984 and Orwell was right and it hits home just about every day. If I search for an item on Amazon, an ad for the item or a similar one will show up on facebook a few minutes later. We have a Amazon Alexia and my wife insist we leave it unplugged. Other wise it will be listening to us 24/7. A friend swears that Alexia was listening to them when they were discussing a possible new purchase and a few days later they started getting soliciting emails for that product. I doubt it. This morning we were backing out of our drive when my wife got a pop up message on her phone. “You are 11 minutes from 24 Hour Fitness”. What?!! How did the phone know where we were going!? The last few weeks I have been getting email solicitations from a Cremation service. Do they know something? Should I be worried???