{"id":105287,"date":"2020-04-13T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/big-brother-is-watching-16-unsettling-dystopian-books-like-1984"},"modified":"2020-04-13T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:42:56","slug":"big-brother-is-watching-16-unsettling-dystopian-books-like-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/big-brother-is-watching-16-unsettling-dystopian-books-like-1984","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother Is Watching: 16 Unsettling Dystopian Books Like \u20181984\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/big-brother-is-watching-16-unsettling-dystopian-books-like-1984.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Activity Post: Everyone is doing weird facebook activities, so I thought I would give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a post for sharing anything but information in the comments section. Many like to read, and in a time of boredom reading passes time. I will start by posting a link to cool books to read, and in the comments section mention books you like to read or links of many books you like to read. Two books that changed my life were \u201cEngines of Creation\u201d by K Eric Drexler, and \u201cThe Society of Mind\u201d, by Marvin Minsky\u2026in fact name two books that have influenced you, and post a link with cool books to read, as that is more info\u2026and we have no clue how long we will be locked up. Reading often leads to inspiration.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>These 16 books like \u20181984\u2019 include invasive rulers, rebels with a cause, and other dystopian themes. Like George Orwell\u2019s novel, they remain with you long after the final page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activity Post: Everyone is doing weird facebook activities, so I thought I would give it a try. This is not a post for sharing anything but information in the comments section. Many like to read, and in a time of boredom reading passes time. I will start by posting a link to cool books to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}