Prompt Number 1, Montag comes to learn that "firemen are rarely necessary" because "the public itself stopped reading of its own accord." Bradbury wrote his novel in 1953: To what extent has his prophecy come true today?


Bradbury's predictions have become more and more true every day. People today take more time checking their Facebook or their Twitter than actually reading. Bradbury’s prediction on the giant TV’s in peoples house has become one the most commonly know things that replaces books. He said that "firemen are rarely necessary" because "the public itself stopped reading of its own accord,” this basically means that burning books isn’t necessary because no one reads anymore anyways. The extent to which Bradbury was correct in his predictions is outstanding, because at his time the television wasn’t really around. Eventually people had stopped reading with the advancement of technology.