Once this was the go-to book if you wanted to understand surveillance society. It still holds, but contemporary surveillance has also moved past this into a new kind of dystopia, that does not rely on men sitting behind cameras watching your every move without you giving them permission. Contemporary surveillance relies on our own participation, that we make our own lives available in data that is then easily made into statistics and profiling. The figure of the Citizen, that voluntarily desires surveillance as in Facebook is one example that 1984 never understood. Goodreads is part of this regime too of course. Contemporary surveillance tries more to prevent crime (through so called "pre-crime") than punish those who did it in the past. That's why profiling and computer-based warning-lists are more important for it (have 30 dubious books on your Goodreads and you are certain to pop up on some surveillance list). For a story more up to speed, we should probably go to 'Minority Report' and the novel it was based on. It shifts the terrain and makes new kinds of resistance possible too, which are still to be invented.