The paragraph began to self-delete Link

On writing a book about Snowden and the NSA:

By September the book was going well – 30,000 words done. A Christmas deadline loomed. I was writing a chapter on the NSA’s close, and largely hidden, relationship with Silicon Valley. I wrote that Snowden’s revelations had damaged US tech companies and their bottom line. Something odd happened. The paragraph I had just written began to self-delete. The cursor moved rapidly from the left, gobbling text. I watched my words vanish. When I tried to close my OpenOffice file the keyboard began flashing and bleeping.

A hundred years from now, historians will reclassify George Orwell’s 1984 as occult, similar to Nostradamus. That will be the only explanation for how he was able to write about the future so accurately.