Just imagine being an author in the 20th century and finding out much later that you accurately predicted the future of technology and the effects it had on people! First, Bradbury wrote about a world of people obsessed with their televisions, which is terrifyingly similar to the obsessions people have with the TV in modern times. Bradbury also wrote Fahrenheit 451, a tale of people who never stopped listening to music, which is close to accurate to people’s addiction to music nowadays. Lastly, the people of society were shown to be afraid of the government’s technology and power through horrid things happening to the people around them, which is alarmingly close to how people feel about their governments now. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
