Fahrenheit 451 Sci Fi
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Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 predicted several technologies that exist today. Bradbury described large TV screens covering walls, which is now possible with projectors. He also predicted wireless earphones and Bluetooth headsets. Most impressively, Bradbury envisioned interactive television shows, like American Idol, where viewers can vote. The novel depicts futuristic devices like a mechanical hound robot and a stomach pump machine that closely resemble modern technologies. Bradbury's vision of a radio transceiver fitting in one's ear anticipated the rise of wireless communication. His ending of nuclear war destroying cities reflects the continued threat of nuclear weapons.
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- 3. Ray Bradbury explained TV screens that covered the entire wall. Now a lot of people essentially do have TV walls with projector screens.
- 4. When this novel was written huge headphones were the new cool thing, and no thoughts of changing the size of them to fit in someones ear were around, but Bradbury predicted this revolution of headphones. In the novel the main characters wife always wears the headphones and ignores the life around her much like people do today.
- 5. Throughout the novel Ray Bradbury describes a large TV on the wall, and it is interactive with the people watching it. 1953 is the year that this novel was written and it also is the year that the first color television came out. Most TVs at that time didnt have more than 5 channels yet Bradbury still saw interactive TV shows in the future. Today shows like American Idol ask the audience to vote for their favorite people, making it an interactive show.
- 6. The mechanical hound is described as a spider like robot that shoots venom at people which obviously doesnt exist, but mechanical things with extremely scary capabilities do exist. For example we now have robots that have been created and computers that have crazy intelligence. Mechanical Hound-
- 7. In the novel the wife of the main character over doses on drugs and has to get her stomach pumped by a machine described as a snake that runs down her throat. Now that is almost identical to the modern day stomach pump which did not exist when this novel was written.
- 8. Probably the most interesting futuristic idea that Bradbury had was a radio transceiver that fit in a persons ear. We now have little cell phone type things that clip around our ears called bluetooth headsets much like Bradbury predicted. These devices allow us to talk almost secretly to another person and we still have both hands to complete other tasks. It is unbelievable how Ray Bradbury predicted such an advanced device still to this day.
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- 10. Nuclear war occurs in the end of the novel and it blows up the whole city. Right now nuclear war could happen anytime and destroy the entire world. Bradburys way to end his book may be the same way that the world ends, and at his time nuclear technology was not advanced at all, but now missiles could be launched whenever. It is scary that Ray Bradbury predicted such a terrible thing in our world.
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