“ Bradbury was actually more concerned with TV destroying interest in literature than he was with government censorship and officials running around libraries with lit matches. According to Bradbury, television is useless and compresses important information about the world into little factoids, contributing to society’s ever-shrinking attention span.
For a science fiction writer who predicted the development of flat-screen TVs you hang on the wall, ATMs and virtual reality, he sure hates new technology. Bradbury also has something against the Internet. He apparently told Yahoo! they could go fuck themselves, and as far as he’s concerned, the Internet can go to hell. He doesn’t own a computer.
What probably pissed Bradbury off more than anything was that people completely disregarded his interpretation of his own book. In fact, when Bradbury was a guest lecturer in a class at UCLA, students flat-out told him to his face that he was mistaken and that his book is really about censorship. He walked out. 6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong (Fahrenheit 451)
I was just talking about this book with Jr!
For a science fiction writer who predicted the development of flat-screen TVs you hang on the wall, ATMs and virtual reality, he sure hates new technology. Bradbury also has something against the Internet. He apparently told Yahoo! they could go fuck themselves, and as far as he’s concerned, the Internet can go to hell. He doesn’t own a computer.
What probably pissed Bradbury off more than anything was that people completely disregarded his interpretation of his own book. In fact, when Bradbury was a guest lecturer in a class at UCLA, students flat-out told him to his face that he was mistaken and that his book is really about censorship. He walked out. 6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong (Fahrenheit 451)
I was just talking about this book with Jr!
(Source: lenitive)
