Cheers there are only a handful of people in history who have possessed the ability of foresight to see government for what it truly is and what it would eventually become (well beyond just surveillance). Orwell is perhaps best known as the author of 1984, but he was an incredible visionary who published many essays, one of my favourites is Politics and The English Language.
RE: Inoculating Society Against Certain Points of View in the War on Information Access