[There's a delay before this response, as though Kitty needs a few minutes to consider her argument; she is only in high school, after all, but luckily, she just happens to have read 1984 for English class last year.]

Nah, I think you're still reading too much into it... taking the idea too literally, y'know? Like, the story's just an example; the author was using the distant future to put what's going on today in perspective. He's trying to remind us to think about stuff in the present, not trying to predict the future.