The Man with a Model Dinosaur

He is more than just passionate about writing.
He is passionate about life, and that's what makes him successful as an author.
Ray Bradbury's motivation for writing is found in his character, the character teeming with intense enthusiasm for doing what he loves. A central idea he expressed in Fahrenheit 451 was that the overusage and succumbing to technology hinders our personal character. If everybody were a color in the novel, they would be grey, like robots- all the same. However the individuals who didn't completely yield to technological advancements were rainbow colored, diverse- different. Is technology REALLY going to go that far though, to the point where it turns everybody grey? Well, take a look around. At a lunch table full of kids at South, I can almost guarentee you that every person has their cell phone out next to their lunch, or in their lap. But that's just a modern day practice. Elementary school kids get home from school, plop on the couch, and turn the television on. These actions don't mold us into the tech zombies Bradbury describes, like Mildred, and they don't necessarily define who we are. I don't think that we are anywhere close to becoming like Mildred and her friends, we're just "keepin up with the times."

But this is just 2010. The man with a model dinosaur described a futuristic setting, and"keepin up with the times" as multiple televisions the size of walls will dominating our lives, because of the destruction of books. I do think that elimination of books would be detrimental to the educational aspect of living, but I don't think we'll ever get there. Time changes, people don't. We'll always have new ideas weaved in and out of our brains, as well as old ones passed on through out. New discussions, new jokes, more to learn, more to see. And technology is probably more useful than destructive in the fueling of those ideas.

I mean, look at me now, blogging online instead of writing my ideas on paper. I can read my peer's blogs and expand my understanding of Fahrenheit 451 much faster and easier than I would've been able to 20 years ago. Bradbury's fiction won't become a reality to the degree he expressed, but possibly in moderation.