1984 was not meant as an instruction manual –from my twitter stream
The telescreens are already here. I was discussing this with a friend that was telling me that an acquaintance of his has placed a band aid over his laptop camera. They are everywhere (in the form of smart phones, laptops and tablets, all camera and GPS enabled and sometimes remotely accessible) and now with the Internet enabled TV sets they are slowly converging to what Orwell had in mind.
Damn.
Managing organized complexity 
My wife also has a band-aid over her laptop camera. At first I thought she’s being a bit paranoid. Then this bug was exposed:
http://securitytracker.com/id/1020996
I stopped thinking she was being paranoid shortly afterwards.
Of course you should stop feeling paranoid. Indeed the telescreens are here to stay: