Winston Churchill, the Britain PM who left office in 1945, is reported to have said that he would read George Orwell's novel, 1984, which was published in 1949.
Did the book inspire him to say that "The empires of the future are empires of the mind"? 1984 depicts a future totalitarian government using media manipulation and advanced technology to control people.
This is exactly how data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are driving the world.
There was a buzz that the Third World War would be fought over water.
