A world where books are burned... Quite possibly one of the scariest dystopias I could ever imagine. A place where society has become so advanced and so quick thinking, that they don't have time for books. Books are replaced with television and movies, which are generally superficial and not at all thought provoking. People insipidly watch television all day, and report their neighbors at the slightest suspicion of a book. I'd like to think, hey there's no way this could happen today. But Bradbury's cautionary tale of the effects of technology still ring true. Books are slowly being replaced with ereaders, newspapers are going extinct due to the Internet. Obviously our government is not promoting the destruction of books, but it is still amazing just how technology is such a fixture in our lives.

But I guess the beauty of the Internet is that where censorship goes to die. So Bradbury might be freaked out by today's technology, but we certainly aren't as doomed as he might suspect.