Comment Fahrenheit 451 becomes closer to reality... (Score 1) 210
Think about it. Remember the "walls"?. People sat around watching virtual families in the walls instead of thinking or reading books.
We already have a great deal of oppression towards some aspects of free thinking, what, with the Patriot Act and the hostile attitudes some Americans have developed over the past 4 years. Burning books can't be that far off at this rate. Thinking just has to be labelled as terrorism essentially. That could be the road we're headed down.
Now, we're going to help this process along by giving people yet another way to waste their time instead of paying attention to the real world and real events going on around them. Even worse, Ray Bradbury almost prophesized this in a way. All we need now is "Surround-Vision" to go with our surround sound. Put 4 LCD projectors or flat panels on each wall, and watch EA's show 24/7 and you've got the same thing as Fahrenheit 451 predicted years ago.
We already have a great deal of oppression towards some aspects of free thinking, what, with the Patriot Act and the hostile attitudes some Americans have developed over the past 4 years. Burning books can't be that far off at this rate. Thinking just has to be labelled as terrorism essentially. That could be the road we're headed down.
Now, we're going to help this process along by giving people yet another way to waste their time instead of paying attention to the real world and real events going on around them. Even worse, Ray Bradbury almost prophesized this in a way. All we need now is "Surround-Vision" to go with our surround sound. Put 4 LCD projectors or flat panels on each wall, and watch EA's show 24/7 and you've got the same thing as Fahrenheit 451 predicted years ago.
