The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed would sill have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. In 1949, George Orewell laid out a prophetic and nightmarish prediction of the world in 1984 a world in which members of society were held under complete subjugation by a standard of laws centered around efficiency, manipulation, and both physical and mental control.
Police is where society is headed.
Already, laws are becoming increasingly complex as legal controversies arise over subjects ranging from gay marriages to freedom of speech on the Internet. At the same time, scientific and technological advancements are allowing us to delve deeper into the mysteries of psychology and behavioral medicine. Furthermore, in the field of science and politics there seems to exist a philosophy that the better we understand the underlying causes of a problem, the better we can work to eradicate it . Hence, if science is offering advanced methods of understanding people, government is inevitably seeking to use this to its advantage to maximize control over society. Take zip codes, for example.