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Fahrenheit 451- a vision of the future  

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Fahrenheit 451- a vision of the future Ray Bradbury's vision of the future is not very optimistic and is not a world I would like to live in. In Guy Montag's world, compared to ours, technology has advanced but it hasn't made an improvement in life. One of the big social changes in Bradbury's vision is the role of firemen this partly down to the advances in technology because all houses had been made fire proof. Now there were no fires to put out so the firemen had to be given a new role: "And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely, all over the world there was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes." Their new job was to, instead of put out fires, start them to burn books because books were thought to corrupt and distress people so the government decided they needed destroying, and reading books was made...

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