# Quote — Dan Simmons, Hyperion

> If our society ever opted for Orwell’s Big Brother approach, the instrument of choice for oppression would have to be the credit wake. In a totally noncash economy with only a vestigial barter black market, a person’s activities could be tracked in real time by monitoring the credit wake of his or her universal card. There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

- Author: [Dan Simmons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons.md)
- Book: [Hyperion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion.md)
- Page: 345
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons#Hyperion_(1989)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-simmons/hyperion/if-our-society

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