The Prediction Fail: Not far out, to be fair, and chillingly accurate in terms of today’s surveillance society. But there’s no denying Orwell et al missed it by a decade or two with their predictions of a Big Brother society (both literally and televisually) gone mad.

Alright, we haven’t quite reached the claustrophobic lows of the lives endured by Edmund O’Brien and co in this dystopian nightmare, but we’re damn near. Did you know that the average UK resident is caught on camera at least 300 times a day? (Except us, of course, we live the lives of film-loving moles.)

Why We Wish They’d Been Right: If they’d been right, and the Big Brother state took over in 1984, god knows what sort of horrific society we’d be living in today. Probably one where people go on TV and become famous for shagging under a table or wrestling in paint. Oh...