Ray Bradbury's Predictions In Fahrenheit 451

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American lifestyle is not perfect. Our lives today are always on the go; we never have time anymore to sit down, relax, and think. That is one of the three predictions that Ray Bradbury predicted would happen to society in the future in his book, Fahrenheit-451. Bradbury’s predictions are not far off from what our society has become/what our society is still to develop into. The other two predictions are: 1. we would lose the quality in the information that we receive on a daily basis; and 2. we would lose the right to carry out the actions based on the information we gather. Fahrenheit-451 is the story of a ‘fireman’, named Guy Montag, in a dystopian future where all the buildings are fireproof, so the fire department has been repurposed: book burning. Ray Bradbury has predicted a future where the quality of information we …show more content…
Television and video games are rapidly becoming more and more popular in America. Not to mention that the average American spends more than an hour a day on the internet, versus 10 years ago when the average was little over a half-hour. Sites like Facebook and Twitter have made conversation with other people become little blurbs about what we see or feel at that exact moment. No one ever talks about what they feel or anything real and embarrassing because everyone can see it; even if it says, “private chat”. Between work or school and the internet, no one has time to themselves anymore unless you’re sleeping, which doesn’t really count as time to think.

In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit-451, society is a ignorant beast that doesn’t allow quality information to flow, leisure time to think, or the ability to carry out actions based on what you learn and feel is morally right. This future is full of emotionally distant people that don’t care even when the people closest to them go off to war and die. This is why people need to read: so that we don’t become emotional

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