[Crontab]

Orwell never guessed that the government could outsource our dystopian nightmare to corporations.

[reddog]

He also never guessed that we would eagerly stand in line to spend $1000 to buy our own tracking devices.

[lucb1e]

(Explaining my downvote: you know full well that the devices are not merely that. It's a useless comment.)

[contravariant]

Given that TVs were one of the tracking devices in his 1984 I'm not sure he would be entirely surprised.

[Theodores]

He never mentioned capitalism or communism in the two childhood classics you know well. Yet I am fairly sure he knew of these systems. We could draw parallels so the details were best left out.

I am not sure if the details of the zero hours contract of the person hired by the mega-corp the government outsourced the provisioning of room 101 rats to would have helped with the story.

During WW2 the government in the UK did a fair bit of outsourcing. In fact, it was only with the post WW2 Labour government that major parts of the UK economy were nationalised. He did write about the duties of children to report thoughtcrime, I am sure that if he had over-added details about corporations instead of keeping it simple then the subtle details of how it is would not have been beyond Orwell.