American Culture In Fahrenheit 451

Technology in American Culture American culture now looks disparate from many years before. In 1995, the first “smartphone” was released in America, although it was not favored by consumers. Then in 1996, The first flip phone was released, creating a new era of technology. In 2007, people’s lives changed forever; on June 29th Apple came out with the very first iPhone. That started the era of having everything someone could ever need to know in their pockets, all the time. Now, ten years later, the great majority of people have some sort of smart phone with them, all the time. This relates to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 through his writing of a technology filled dystopia. In Bradbury’s science fiction novel, he creates detached humans living an inconsequential life, and a few outlaws also known as intellectual people. In this …show more content…
One is able to observe that American culture today relates existentially to what is written about in the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury depicts a technology filled, senseless world, and looking at the world which is reality today, one can see how alike they are and how society is really falling into that universe. Ray Bradbury wrote about a world only in his imagination, but it seems as though his imagination was a prediction of a future life, an example from the novel is when Faber tells Montag why they don't have books, he says “The comfortable people only want wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the