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  1. #RayBradbury Reveals the True Meaning of #Fahrenheit451: It’s Not About #Censorship, But People “Being Turned Into Morons by #TV

    in Books | August 10th, 2017 9 Comments

    ' 'Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship,' wrote the Los Angeles Weekly’s Amy E. Boyle Johnson in 2007. 'Nor was it a response to Senator #Joseph McCarthy, whose investigations had already instilled fear and stifled the creativity of thousands.' Rather, he meant his 1953 novel as 'a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.' "

    openculture.com/2017/08/ray-br

    #Idiocracy #DumbingUsDown #PutDownThePhones #AISucks #ReadABook

  2. Currently reading: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I haven’t picked this up since grade school, but it’s eerie how well Bradbury predicted the future that we are currently living in. #Fahrenheit451 #RayBradbury #books #bookstodon #ReadBannedBooks #currentlyreading

  3. Did you know? The melting point of data is also #Fahrenheit451. 🔥 Fight censorship in all forms this #BannedBooksWeek, and help ensure public access to public data remains a public good.

  4. 451 Fahrenheita:
    »Wspomnienie Tomka Pacyńskiego – Andrzej Pilipiuk«

    Nasze ostatnie spotkanie było kompletnie idiotyczne: wpadliśmy na siebie w drzwiach Pałacu Kultury i Nauki w Warszawie. Trwały Targi Książki. Ja wchodziłem i zaraz miałem mieć spotkanie autorskie, on akurat wychodził. Dwaj ludzie w biegu...

    fahrenheit.net.pl/publicystyka

    #Fahrenheit_zin #AndrzejPilipiuk #451Fahrenheita #TomaszPacyński #Fahrenheit #Fahrenheit451

  5. 'And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then. Now, it's too late.'
    #DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

    #BoekPerWeek 82/52 ★★★★★

    My review on Goodreads:
    goodreads.com/review/show/3153

    #Lezen #Read
    #Boeken @boeken #Bookstodon
    @bookstodon

    #Fahrenheit451
    #RayBradbury
    #SciFi #ScienceFiction
    #BookBans #ImmersiveTechnology

  6. @GottaLaff

    Some days, I could just jump off a cliff.

    This reality is fast becoming an amalgamate of all the negative #utopias I read years ago:

    #1984,
    #Fahrenheit451,
    #TheMatrix,
    #SecondVariety,
    #Wargames, #TheCompleteRobot, #Terminator including its #Skynet,
    #Robocop,
    #DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep? (#Bladerunner),
    and
    #TheHandMaidsTale.
    Hopefully, we are not also heading for #TheMinorityReport already (#AGI?)

    These are only the ones out of the top of my head.

  7. @ruialves

    (2/n)

    "... #PKD's #SecondVariety, and not even #TheMatrix, but just as #surveillance technology has surpassed what was possible in #Orwell's #1984, in particular in the #PRC, we are moving beyond #Fahrenheit451, too.

    👉The biggest trouble is that the ancient #Viking #Norns seem to be weaving all those #dystopian fates of humanity into one.👈

    In the May 15th #TheEconomist's Editor's Picks podcast, they were looking historically at the impact on productivity growth...