How Does Fahrenheit 451 Predict The Future

Human’s greatest achievements have brought progress to others, but sometimes this “progress” can lead others to melancholy in the future. The book Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is about a potential future that awaits us. The book deciphered how people don’t read books due to the technology made for them. The more prominent the technology was, the more others can read other commodities online. Although people do not read books, it shows how people are not “in play” to interact with things other than an electric device, which introduces them to social solitude with the human life. Despite how other people feel about this book, it’s still relevant in our society, due to the book basically predicting the fate of other offspring after …show more content…
If a book predicted the future, then people would understandably want to read the book. There are heaps of books that predicted the future, and the sales were high because humans haven't actually embraced the idea that uncertainty is the only constant. People want to believe that life is not a dull, boring place meant to only populate your species. The Wreck of the Titan, by Morgan Robertson, is about a boat, that was “unsinkable”, and “was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men”, but sank by an iceberg in the Northern Atlantic; this book predicted the Titanic’s sinking almost exactly 14 years later and it cannot be a coincidence that their names are only off by 2 letters, that they were both described the same way by engineers, and also sunk in the Northern Atlantic by an iceberg. People want a conspiracy. People love a conspiracy. The Wreck of the Titan, was a conspiracy. In addition to that, Ray Bradbury predicted several commodities, for example, our frequent use of technology; headphones, thimble radios, wide screened TVs, etc. This book was published in 1953, and as of right now, it is 2018, and 9 times out of 10, people have encountered