From Big_data to Big_Brother, there is always a chance of eventually become a totalitarian hive.
http://www.businessinsider.com/george-orwells-biggest-fear-went-far-beyond-big-brother-2013-6
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/jun/11/george-orwell-prism-big-brother-1984
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-08/nsas-boundless-informant-collects-3-billion-intelligence-pieces-us-computer-networks
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/government-lies/big-brother-is-real/orwellian-america-today.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/big-brother-s-power-is-building-warns-george-orwell-biographer-1.1369989
1949 June 8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
Just imagine what the world will be like by 2049.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four)#Purported_origins,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_(Anthony_Burgess_novel)
11-22-1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burgess#Death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic_Named_Joe (1946)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four)#Existence
"In 2000, Leinster's heirs sued Paramount Pictures over the film Star Trek: First Contact, claiming that as the owners of the rights to Leinster's 1945 short story "First Contact", it infringed their trademark in the term."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Leinster#Legal_action_against_Paramount_Pictures
The movie was released in 1996 on 11-22. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_First_Contact
The Borg is the epitome of a totalitarian technological hive that's always looking for new beings & worlds to assimilate upon First_Contact.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescreen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark#Trademark_erosion
http://jf-databits.blogspot.ca/2013/06/616-and-666-etc.html