Bradbury and Vonnegut wrote about events that they believed the future would become. Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451” was a twist on the job of firemen. Where as in Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” was written about the future where everyone was equal. Bradbury and Vonnegut were both visionaries on what they predicted would happen in the future. Some predictions that the authors made came true. The world they wrote about is possible and there are several implications that our future could come to. Bradbury and Vonnegut were visionaries for their time period. Bradbury’s novel was a twist on the job of a fireman. Instead of the firemen putting out house fires their job was to burn books. People didn’t need firemen to put out house
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One of Bradbury’s predictions that came true is children being taught at a younger age. Back in the 1970’s children did not start school until 1st grade when they were six, where as, today in 2015, children start school at the age of four. Technology has highly increased in teaching children. Kids now take online classes or are home schooled and in this process the teachers “run the answers at you” (Bradbury page 27) and by having this done children are not socializing. Another example is the crowded highways. The governments have to expand highways because of all the traffic. Also the speed limits on the interstates are 75 miles per hour; therefore, people are speeding buy billboards and are not reading them or taking time to admire the scenery. Bradbury wrote about how people used wall to wall circuits that family members can communicate with each other. In today’s time we have face time and Skype. These are apps that you can visually communicate with friends and family. In the novel Faber, a professor, gave Montag, a fireman, an ear piece to communicate back and to with each other. Today the law enforcement uses these and they call them wires. In the novel Bradbury talks about a robot bank teller that stays at the bank 24/7 this is similar to today’s ATM machines. The novel was written mainly on the firemen burning books instead of putting out house fires. In past history books were burned due to …show more content…
In the book Beatty, the chief of the fire department, stated, “Technology, mass exploitations, and minority pressure carried the trick” (Bradbury pg.55). Today in 2015 technology has already started taking over people’s lives. There are cell phones that can pretty much do anything necessary. Books now can be downloaded on computers, iPads, and cell phones. As Beatty stated minority pressure is also taking over lives. There is less and less prayer in schools because now a days there are less and less christens. In the novel Montag, “put his hand into the glove hole of his front door” (Bradbury pg 8) and the door would slide open. Some companies us fingerprints to access rooms. The Iphone 6s uses finger prints to unlock it. The circuits that Bradbury mentioned in the novel are similar to the apps face time and Skype. Last but not least earplugs are used for music and local police use ear plugs as a listening device to capture criminals. In Vonnegut’ short story “television was an immensely powerful force” (spark notes). People use TV’s in their everyday lives, and it could be anything from watching the news to watching a reality
One of Bradbury’s predictions that came true is children being taught at a younger age. Back in the 1970’s children did not start school until 1st grade when they were six, where as, today in 2015, children start school at the age of four. Technology has highly increased in teaching children. Kids now take online classes or are home schooled and in this process the teachers “run the answers at you” (Bradbury page 27) and by having this done children are not socializing. Another example is the crowded highways. The governments have to expand highways because of all the traffic. Also the speed limits on the interstates are 75 miles per hour; therefore, people are speeding buy billboards and are not reading them or taking time to admire the scenery. Bradbury wrote about how people used wall to wall circuits that family members can communicate with each other. In today’s time we have face time and Skype. These are apps that you can visually communicate with friends and family. In the novel Faber, a professor, gave Montag, a fireman, an ear piece to communicate back and to with each other. Today the law enforcement uses these and they call them wires. In the novel Bradbury talks about a robot bank teller that stays at the bank 24/7 this is similar to today’s ATM machines. The novel was written mainly on the firemen burning books instead of putting out house fires. In past history books were burned due to …show more content…
In the book Beatty, the chief of the fire department, stated, “Technology, mass exploitations, and minority pressure carried the trick” (Bradbury pg.55). Today in 2015 technology has already started taking over people’s lives. There are cell phones that can pretty much do anything necessary. Books now can be downloaded on computers, iPads, and cell phones. As Beatty stated minority pressure is also taking over lives. There is less and less prayer in schools because now a days there are less and less christens. In the novel Montag, “put his hand into the glove hole of his front door” (Bradbury pg 8) and the door would slide open. Some companies us fingerprints to access rooms. The Iphone 6s uses finger prints to unlock it. The circuits that Bradbury mentioned in the novel are similar to the apps face time and Skype. Last but not least earplugs are used for music and local police use ear plugs as a listening device to capture criminals. In Vonnegut’ short story “television was an immensely powerful force” (spark notes). People use TV’s in their everyday lives, and it could be anything from watching the news to watching a reality