To avoid this ending in today’s society, people should not ban books. Books portray a person’s opinion and liberty to speak out for themselves. If that person’s book is banned, their freedom of speech and liberty to think freely is taken away. If their opinion and thoughts are banned, what will stop them from banning another person’s? Or another? Or an entire nation? Once a government starts to ban books, there is no limit to what they will ban or what they will control. Freedom will become non-existent along with books.
A controlling government will be the result of the negative affects of the digitalization of information in today’s age. Fahrenheit 451’s fictional society could soon become a reality if society today continues to find ways to replace books. Making all information digital is a great way to accelerate society down that path. What Bradbury believed was fictitious could very well be the society people live in the