Ray Bradbury uses a lot of futuristic things in the story but there is a possibility that he really did tell the future in his book. Fahrenheit 451 Ray BradBury Ray Bradbury told the future in his Fahrenheit 451. The wall-sized TVs, the green bullet, the censored doors, The suicid rate, communication, and how people avoid the unhappy things to be happy even though people are angry and sad and very unhappy.
One way Ray Bradbury is predictive of our time with the use of technology. His wall-sized TVs are reminiscent of our TVs today. The parlor walls captivate Mildred to the point that she asks Montag to complete her parlor with a fourth wall. Mildred states, “it’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in?” (Bradbury 18). She says this because she is upset by the fact that, instead of four, there are only three wall televisions. She thinks it's going to be more fun because that means she can interact with four people instead of three. Though, the catch here is that it costs too much to buy the fourth TV wall, by buying that wall it will take a quarter of Montag's annual salary. Montag doesn't seem satisfied. This ties into our society today because people also seem to want a TV as much as Mildred but they do not care about the price. His ̈green bullets ̈ are similar to our Bluetooth or airpods of today. ¨Faber tells Montag 'My cowardice is of such a passion, complementing the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow, I was forced to design this.'He picked up a small green object no larger than a .22 bullet.'It looks like a seashell radio.' 'And something more! It listens! If you put it in your ear, Montag, I can sit comfortably home, warming my frightened bones, and hear and analyze the firemen's world, find its weaknesses, without danger. I'm the queen bee, safe in the hive. You will be the drone, the traveling ear...'He will connect with Faber when Montag puts the green bullet in his ear, who listens at a safe distance on the other end. This goes with airpod form this generation because with airpods anyone can communicate from a distance with anyone. The censored doors with the handprint recognition which is similar to Alexa or cameras at the front door. When Montag goes to his house needs his hand to get in 'He put his hand into the glove-hole of his front door and let it know his touch. The front door slid open.' (Bradbury) A glove fitted to Montag's own personal specifications opens the front door. It seems almost like a fingerprint, but it uses the whole hand which is like the security nowadays or how to unlock peoples phone with their fingerprint to not type in the password. Given these points with the use of his technology it ties in with the future like the handprints,airpods and also the TVs. Bradbury did a good job of telling the future in his book about technology.
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Another way Bradbury is predictive of our time is his depiction of society. How similar the suicide rate in the book goes with the rate in real life. While Montag was with Mildred cleaning out her stomach the operators said ̈We get these cases nine or ten at night. Got so many, starting a few years ago, we had the special machines built. ̈ People are unhappy and they do not have the freedom to do what they want they also feel controlled and which is reminiscent of real-life because there are people who feel trapped like in the book. Not only but also the communication between people in the book and people in real like is similar. Montag told Faber 'Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.'Montag believes that no one listens to him because they're so caught up in the walls and what they are telling them. Most of the interaction in the book is about technology in the same way it ties in with the present because many people do not talk anymore they either text or post it all in social media. People in the book avoid their issues which is similar to real life. Montag is telling Mildred 'I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and don't know what. I might even start reading books. […] Before I hurt someone. Did you hear Beatty? Did you listen to [Beatty]? He knows all the answers. He's right. Happiness is important. Fun is everything. And yet I kept sitting there saying to myself, I'm not happy, I'm not happy.¨ (BradBury) In this case, they avoid all the unhappy things like funerals, book etc to make people happy because that’s their ̈goal ̈ in life just like in our generation we all want to be happy so that means we avoid the things that make us unhappy and do not go through the stages of grief. Generally Speaking, Bradbury was predictive of how their society went and how they wanted to be happy while they were very unhappy.
In the book Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury told the future. Furthermore in the book the wall-sized televisions, the gren bullet, the censored doors, the suicide rate, cummunication, and how people avoid being unhappy.There are many ways Bradbury told the future in his book with technology and how people talk to each other. While most would say that Ray Ray BradBury's world is a fairly accurate prediction,, some would say that he missed the mark. The naysayers could point out that in AMerican society we still publish books and have the freedom to read whenever we want. Although this is true, technology has replaced the skill of book reading for more and more Americans. People will choose just about any technology to occupy themselves such as listening to music,streaming shows, scrolling through social media,playing video games, and surfing the web. In the book Captain Beatty revealed that it was people not the government or firemen, that first stopped their reading, and that is exactly what is happening in today's society.
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