Future Trends In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

The future. Although we may not know what is going to happen, we can predict some things that will happen. For example, we can predict the fashion trend for the next year by looking at current trends. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the setting is in the future, in which we see some of the technologies used that can oftentimes be related to the technologies of today. We also see the way society is and how that relates to present day. When Ray Bradbury tells us about his predictions from the future he talks about these “Hounds.” The hounds are dog-shaped robots with eight legs. They roam the neighborhood looking for people who have done bad and they kill the fugitives who have not followed the laws of society. His prediction about the hounds relates to in our time video surveillance. When the hounds chased Montag around the city, the government watched the whole chase from the hounds perspective. This would relate to video cameras that are outside of supermarkets or banks because if someone has robbed the stores the police can go back and watch the tapes to catch the criminal.

“The people in the Fahrenheit 451 society sport ‘seashells’ and ’thimble radios,’ which bear a striking resemblance to the earbuds and Bluetooth headsets of today to the headphones of today’s age.” (Hayley Tsukayama, par 2) Specifically talking, when Montag used the seashell, he stuck it in his ear and could talk to Faber. The same with the headphones. You can put headphones in your ear and when someone calls you, you don’t have to worry about taking them out because you can talk on the phone with your headphones in. So that is one way Bradbury’s story predicts the technologies of the