Farenheit 451, published in 1953
Then motion pictures in the early 20th century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass…And because they had mass, they became simpler…Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different…But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Films and radios, magazines, books leveled down to a sort of pastepudding norm, do you follow me?
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Whirl man’s mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters, that the centrifuge flings off all uncessary time-wasting thought!
- Ray Bradbury, discussing 2011 in 1953.
