George Orwell’s 1984 re-told for present day by Matt Smith

George Orwell’s iconic novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ has been re-released as ‘Twenty Twenty-One’ in the UK by Avast, a global leader in digital security and privacy. With the copyright expiring this year, the re-released version has all 1984 date references amended to 2021, to contextualise the novel into a modern setting and to highlight the complexities and dangers of online surveillance in today’s society.