American entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk said that the real world is better than the dystopia of the British novelist George Orwell, although there is more surveillance in it than the novelist fantasized about.

"The world is actually vastly better than Orwell imagined, but there is also vastly more surveillance," Musk tweeted.

Thus, the entrepreneur responded to a social network user who called the British writer an optimist.

The dystopian novel 1984, published in 1949, is George Orwell's best known.