Re:I always thought that Fahrenheit 451... (Score 3, Informative)

The original book on this subject was not George Orwell's "1984" (1948) or Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" (1932), neither was it Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"(1953). I can only recommend reading Yevgeni Zamyatin's "We" (1924), which was published decades before the other books.

• Yevgeni Zamyatin: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0952632/bio
• Aldous Huxley: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404717/
• George Orwell: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000567/
• Ray Bradbury: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001969/