Orwellian America: Government Transparency and Personal Privacy in the Digital Age

DCPL continues to show off its geek cred, though I'm not certain about calling it a "celebration" as http://dclibrary.org/1984 puts it.

This morning's Washington Post Express "Page Three" section (found on page 3, logically enough) has this tidbit:

BEYOND BOOKS
D.C. library to livestream 11-hour reading of "1984"

Starting January 21, the D.C. Public Library is presenting 10 series [sic] of events titled "Orwellian America? Government Transparency and Personal Privacy in the Digital Age". Among the offerings:

•  A live-streamed 11-hour marathon reading of George Orwell's "1984"
• A screening of Frontline's "United States of Secrets, Part 1"
• A workshop on TOR, software for anonymously surfing the Web.
  

Now, if we can get them to replace the OS's on their computers with
Byzantium (http://project-byzantium.org/) -- or TAILS (https://tails.boum.org/) or... ;-)