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Every once in a while, you come across an author that just get's it right, and Ray Bradbury just get's it right. The way he writes, the way his characters come to him and demand to be written about is how writing should always be done. He said that his love for reading and writing started early age. On one particular trip to the carnival, a man called the Electrical Man pointed to him and told him to live forever. Then later when he was at a funeral for his favorite uncle he decided to runaway from death and run towards life, and now because of his ground breaking books, Ray Bradbury will live forever. It is humorous how he wrote F451 in the basement of a libray, oh how beautiful the irony of life is. Bradbury says that he is Clairrise, that he was that little boy eagerly devouring book after book and loving life. When he was fifteen he discovered the dangerous of burning books when Hitler burned books. He realized that without the ability to read, you can't live in society.
Funny how some of the aspects in his book exist today. In the fifties it was unheard of people having TV's the size of walls or children killing other children, but now that is reality. Go to any celebrities house and they'll have a wall devoted to top of the chart HD flat screen TV, turn on the news and a new story about another school shooting will pop up. I'm not saying that Bradbury to blame for the world we live in, I'm just saying his predictions were very accurate. There is the slight possibility though that he did influence us, who's to know that an engineer didn't read his book then create the first flat screen TV? All Bradbury really did actually is warn us, warn us of a possibly reality that if we take technology to far, that possible will become real.

Star Trek

In 1966 if you sat down and watched an episode of "Star Trek", as many Americans did, the things they did on screen were so far fetched it was hard to fathom any of those devices actually existing. Fast forward over fourty years into the future, and the unthinkable now exists. When the captain asks to be beamed up, all he does is pull out a little gadget that flips open and he can communicate through, know what that is? A little thing called a cell phone. When they spoke to the leader of the other nation, he was on a screen and that's how they were communication. Today you could do that too, just buy a computer camera and there you go. It is very true that science fiction writers are the best inventors. In Farhenheit 451 they have tv's covering an entire wall, and that is very much possible today.
When Star Trek came out, it was during a time of war, civil rights movements, women rights, and so much more. They way they dressed and some of the plots of Star Trek pushed the bounderies that America was accustomed to. The two main girls of that episode had very revealing clothes, similar to that of the Romans and Greeks. Also the plot had to deal with again ethocentrism. The cloud people thought they were better then the minors and that the minors were not entilted to the same rights as they did. In the real world, men considered women the "lesser race" and did not deserve the privalages that men had. Trust was also a strong theme. In previous decades people did not have to worry about locking there doors or were taught to be distrustful towards other, but the sixites really changed all of that. The show depicted how people had become so untrustworthy that they will act foolish just to protect themselves from getting hurt. Who would've thought a science fiction show would have deeper meanings to it?