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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in
Fahrenheit 451?

It is both fascinating and terrifying to see how much Ray Bradburn was able to depict such a world that resembles so much of the world we are living in today. While not as catastrophic and horrifying as the things that took place in the story, we could see the similarities that our worlds share including the fact that everyone is more and more dependent on technology and efficiency, which then results in fewer real-life social interactions. The video also mentioned that Bradburn included in his novel the high use of Ai technology to function the society and if we compare this fictional world that was illustrated in the 1953 to today's world, there has been a lot of Ai being introduced and replaced the physical labors, which is surprisingly indicating that what is taking place at this moment to shape our current society to become a dystopia.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

Seeing the progress that humankind has made in today's world, many lives are improved and we are able to perform tasks more efficiently. But there seems to be a thin line between what is needed to better function our society and what could be excessive, such being the concept that robots and Ai technology would take on all the tasks that used to be handled by mankind because what would happen is that we might lose the principles that make us humans, which includes a well-functioning social life, intelligence, communications and so on. All of this could potentially shape our future world into the revolutionary, yet dystopian society that we've once only seen in fictional stories.

3.) Takeaway from F451 intro slide

Rab Bradburn is an accomplished author, which has written Fahrenheit 451 as a warning statement about the "Future". This book covers many of the patterns often seen in a dystopian world including oppressive government, propaganda, social ignorance, conformity, etc. The fact that this novel was written during the 1950s is mindblowing because of how much he was able to detailed out a fictional world that has so much resemblance to our real world. He has also tied together the custom of burning books that comes with a historical background with the issue that he was facing, which was the invasion of editors imparing writers' creativity and originality.

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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?
The comparison between our world now to the world in the book Fahrenheit 451, was not much of a difference. In the world in the book Fahrenheit 451, the government tends to watch over artists and writers as an act of surveillance. They do this because they are afraid that those artists and writers might create something that goes against the government by showcasing their dark side. This makes a connection to the real world because some of the products that are published by artists and writers have to be checked up with the government. Perhaps, if they were to post without being checked up, their products must be taken down. This show was surveillance by the government over those artists and writers. If it goes against the government, as a matter of course, it won’t be published or could be taken down immediately.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?
Certainly, this is something that we as citizens should worry about. As a matter of fact, this has already happened in the past so it possibly might happen again. Or if it is happening, we have to create awareness to prevent this from creating something bigger.  If we start trying to prevent this nowadays, we don't have to worry much about the future. But futuristically,  if we don't start making awareness right now, it would be a bigger problem as the world keeps developing in both technological areas and in politics.

3.) 1 takeaway post from the Intro Slides.
1 thing I took away from the Intro Slides is about technological advancement as well as the electronics industry. This includes how the electronics industry became the 5th largest industry and television had a widespread impact in American homes. Moreover, this also includes radio broadcasts, fast cars, and atomic weapons.

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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?

In comparison to the book Fahrenheit 451, today's world is slowly resembling the one depicted in the book. Our technology is getting more and more advanced. People's perceptions of reading books to gain knowledge have changed as a result of this improvement, and they now prefer to stay on their phones and use social media instead. This can be addressed as the first step of humanity abandoning books as their source of knowledge. In the present day, we have more rights to do things compared to the world in the book. We are more concerned about our rights and people are willing to fight for them as shown in the keep happening protest whether it's about race, sex, nationality, language, religion, or any other status.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

I had to believe that this might be one of the endless possibilities that will happen if human continue to rely on technology and choose to abandon books. I think that Fahrenheit 451 is something we should all fear and try to avoid. Humans will always be the ones who'll make an impact on themselves and the planet. We just had to hope that our future won't be anything near to what Ray Bradbury's novel is depicted.

3.) Text Takeaways

It was astonishing to see that some of Ray Bradbury's concerns were becoming true. Despite the fact that the novel was intended to be a warning to prevent his vision of the future from becoming a reality, some of the main leading factors have already begun. This implies that our world will someday be connected to or resemble the one displayed in Fahrenheit 451.

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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?

I believe we are very similar to the book Fahrenheit 541 in that we never scared of losing individuality; We don't like being different from others. People nowadays prefer to be trendy or to hop on the trends, which means doing the same things as everyone else. This is why it appears that we are simply doing so to avoid being or feeling excluded from the world.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

I believe it is a significant worry since the world has altered as a result of technological dominance. As a response to technological developments, people are rapidly shifting to a new and different lifestyle; we are no longer interacting in the same manner.   Technology has a significant influence on human contact by reducing socialization, particularly face-to-face interaction. Some technology users may even put technology over family, friends, and jobs, potentially damaging their relationships and other responsibilities.

3.) Key takeaways from the F451 introduction slide Technology has advanced to dominate people's experiences. People living in Bradbury's fictional world have an obsession with it and it is frightening to see this occurring in today's society.

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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?

In comparison to Fahrenheit 451 and our world, I think we are a little better. Fahrenheit 451 society doesn't even have a voice or feelings of curiosity at all. We are in different parts of the world. We have different rules. So we have a lot of choices in terms of freedom, thoughts and curiosity. Though, there are places that do not have access to those things.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

When technology is too advanced and we have more access to information. There will be restrictions to block everyone access to those data. I’m sure this restriction will turn the world upside down to a dystopian future. A dystopian society would not be a great idea on Earth right now. A society where the media closed down and manipulated.

3.) What is one thing that sticks out to you?

One thing that sticks out to me is the title of the book. Fahrenheit 451 is a temperature. It can mean a lot of different things, not just a temperature that burns only books. I’m sure there will be more to discover when we get to more of the book.

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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?

The book Fahrenheit 451 depicts a futuristic world where independent thoughts are highly restricted. The society is under constant surveillance and governs by virtual reality. I believe that the creation of this fictional society is inspired by the current world. We are showing the characteristics of a dystopian society. Similar to F451, governments continue to implement surveillance including surveillance cameras, wiretaps, GPS tracking, and internet surveillance. For instance, it is estimated that there are approximately 415.8 million located in the country. Every move in the city is seemingly captured digitally. China abuses human rights and believes that it will enable them to observe and prevent threats to the regime. In addition, there is a lot of censorship in our world. It’s usually the government that limits and prohibits the news, information, books, etc. This is comparable to the burning of books in F451. A prominent example is the oppressive government of North Korea. The press and news are tightly controlled by the state, and the government only allows speech that supports its authority. Furthermore, just like the world in F451, we continue to be reliant on technology. Technology has become an essential accessory in our everyday lives, so much that we humans depend on it. Everyday life activities are managed through technological appliances and applications. Technologies make work easier, faster, efficient, and save money. However, if we become too dependent on technology, it can greatly affect our species.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

I believe that we should be worrying about the fact that we are gradually building a dystopian world. People should beware that if we ignore what’s happening around us now, there’s a high chance that the book F451 will no longer be fictional and a part of our history. We should learn to balance the use of technology, enhance our critical thinking, socialize and use our right to speak up.

3.) What is one thing that stood out to you?

One fact that stood out to me is the author of F451, Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). As I scroll through the slide, most of his works explored issues that are threatening our society including censorship, racism, and the danger of technology. Through his books, he was able to criticize the problematic social structure, political structure, individuals, society, etc. During the 1950s, the government was very strict about information and writings that were published to the public. I admire the courage of the author. He demonstrated bravery and fearlessness by publishing his works so others can be aware and reflect on the society they’re living in.

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For me, it was really astonishing to see how his admiration for things such as monsters, magicians, and adventure films had helped him build up the style of his success stories. More importantly, his idea of writing stories that have the potential to become reality was what I think made him such an amazing author because of how it would able to catch the readers' attention.

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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?

In comparison, the world right now is less intense than the one in Fahrenheit 451 since no one is burning books from all areas in life. However, the technology development in the stories compared to today's society showed similarities. In the modern world, we have smartphones-to watch TikTok, Instagram, YouTube-that consume our time. Generally, we consider this as part-time entertainment. However, as an observation, the time some people use these platforms every day is excessive. In Fahrenheit 451, the government has created technologies for a short attention span and prevents critical thinking; similarly, some of these platforms in our world are encumbering our knowledge, eating up time, and holding us from seeing the real-world problem.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

A part of me believed that the future, one day, will become a dystopia place; perhaps, some nations in our world right now have became one. Fahrenheit 451 was a book published in 1953 by an author who has seen these events happened in history, and it has been 68 years since. The world is developing, and the fact that there could be future leaders with mindsets of a society that contains burning books, invading citizens' privacy, and dehumanizing people, terrifies me because this future feels more realistic as days passes.

3.) One takeaway from the slide

I was surprised to learn that censorship in Fahrenheit 451 began from the people, not the government. This information illustrates that in some scenarios in a society, the citizens could have more ability than the government to destroy a culture because of trends or conformity.

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1.  How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?

Censorship:
Similar to Fahrenheit 451, many books are also banned. The greatest books are at the most risk of getting banned, such as To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Hate You Give, and Something Happened in Our Town. This is because the government thinks that the citizens should focus on entertainment as a distraction from what's really happening in our society. This is similar to giving cows Virtual Reality to reduce anxiety because their world is a real dystopia full of anxiety.

Roles of Technology:
To add to the point above, technology also plays a really crucial role to keep us busy and entertain, so we don't have to think about politics and the world we're living in. Just take a look around us. Television across the wall, smartphones in our hands, and right now, I am using a computer typing these words. Technology makes the world so convenient that we do not have to worry about anything. We're living in a pure little bubble.

2. Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

We, as citizens, should be afraid of these things to some degree. We should be aware of how much technology we consume and learn about its effect. We also should have a balance of technology and book.

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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?

The world in Fahrenheit 451 is comparable to our world today. The use of the internet has increased daily, people tend to believe of what they see on that platform. Instead of reading hundred of pages, we read thing on the internet, which we believe is more efficient. The informations on the media are unlike those are on books. Medias are very selective of what they put up, therefore biases are everywhere. Because of the cancel culture, the herd mentally of believing on a certain idea has became a trend.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

In my opinion, the possibility of human continue to rely on technology is really high, therefore this is something we should fear. Even though, our future is up to us, if we are willing to accept new knowledge and always thrive to find out the truth; we won't fear of our future.

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1. Our current world somehow slowly changes to an almost dystopian world because instead of burning books, eliminating independent thoughts, our freedom to express our thoughts and our voices have been restricted by the government in an indirect way. Even though the law states that humans have freedom, democracy is concealed nowadays, not allowing citizens to express any ideas that are against the government. Those who are fearless to express their opinions are often killed and prisoned. In short, our world is not far different from Fahrenheit 451 since ideas, thoughts, and voices are restricted by the rulers.

2. I believe that we should still worry about it today because our present action can greatly affect our future, and therefore we should act upon these issues to create a place where we can at least call “utopia.”

3. After I went through the slides, what stuck out to me is his prediction. It is still relevant and turns out to be true nowadays. I want to know what made him predict the way he has predicted and what led him to that conclusion.

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Questions:
1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?
- I think that our world now is developing in parallel to the world I have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451. I think the current world leaders do uses control the flow of information to some extent, and therefore, they have already create division in the people because they have created a gap in information everyone is receiving.
2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?
- Although the modern age where people have access to information through a few click of their smart mobile phone, I still think that this book depicted a very possible dystopian future. The control over the flow of information is something we should still worry about today. I think author's quote comes into effect here. I think that the future we are developing into is full of technology that will eventually interfere with our ideas and what our information we will get. A dictator could control the algorithm of your search results, and therefore, control what information you digest. This blatantly controls you.

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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?

The world we live in today is similar to the world in Fahrenheit 451. In today's world, people prefer to use their technology more than books to entertain themselves which further limits our critical thinking and knowledge. Not only, but the language we use in modern days is also shorter than the one that was spoken before. We had turned words such as "want to" to "wanna", "nevermind" to "nvm" which is very similar to what I've just watched in the video about the world in Fahrenheit 451. So, even we might not notice it, we do have quite the similarity to the dystopian world in the book that we're about to read.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

We should start to realize what our world has become and we should take actions to lead the future of our world on the correct path. If we keep referring to technology and not the literature in books, the future society might not even be able to read. Though some might see his shift in the world as progress that every world will have to go through inevitably, it might not be considered as good progress to our world and might lead our world to a path that we don't want to fall into. Just like we have learned, without literature in the book, our critical thinking and thoughts would be limited and we would not have to ability to think critically enough about our decision that would affect the world that we live in. We might not have the solutions to the problem in our world if we stop using books as our guide. Perhaps, we should all take a step backward and reflect on our world and decide on a future of what we want it to become for the future generation.

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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?

Some parts of the world we live in now are comparable to those in Fahrenheit. For instance, the book is based on events that happened in the past, such as the burning of books. In today's world, we have media censorship everywhere. You can't say a certain thing or express a certain emotion without another judging, another criticizing, and another "canceling" you. You can see cancel culture in effect on social media, most prominently, on social media such as Twitter. It might take on a different form of censorship during the period of the events that happened in the book, but they are still forms of censorship. The suppression of creativity can also be seen in modern-day classrooms; teachers silencing students who are not behaving and telling the students to do as they're told.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

These things should be worried and feared about today. People should be aware that this can happen, and people should congregate to form solutions to prevent this from happening. I believe that old literature captivates a world in the past that is a dystopia, a world that the future would not want to be like. Therefore, the book should serve as a hint to people that this could well be our future in the next century, decade, or even year.

3.) Takeaway

A fact that strikes out to me are that his work was dated to the 1900s but the events and practices in his work are still relevant to today's issues. His works depict the world in which technology will have "unpredictable consequences" on our society. We can see that today. People are reliant on technology to the point where there would be a riot if technology were to be removed. A recent event that happened was when Facebook went down because there were outages of data and network traffic errors. Six hours was all it took for many businesses to lose many sales, people can't communicate with their friends and families, and more. This strikes me as terrifying and shocking as to the world we're currently living in. It makes me wonder what the world would look like in the future.

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1.) How would you compare our world now to the world you have just heard about in Fahrenheit 451?

How I would compare the world now to the world I just heard about in Fahrenheit 451 is that even though daily communication is not as direct as before but at least we can still have thoughts and ideas to think about where in the novel, the government does not want that to happen. We should also appreciate the current world we're in because we have books and more freedom to human interaction.

2.) Are these things we should still worry about today? Is this a future we still have to fear?

I think these things are something we should still worry about because as we see nowadays compare to 100 years ago, we now tend to focus or be more on the screen devices and we are spending fewer times on books or communicating with the people around us. So this behavior is slowly developed into a new norm that the people in Fahrenheit 451 are having and we should be worried about it.

What is a fact that sticks out to you?

One fact that sticks out to me in Fahrenheit 451 is the way humans interact which each other that it's a sped-up life and they want short and immediate answers rather than a normal conversation.

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1. The world we live in currently is a little bit similar to the world in Fahrenheit 451 in a few ways. In some part of the world, right now, minorities struggles to have a voice, and citizens are silenced under the control of an extreme government system of a country (Cough! cough! North Korea). There are instances where some of the younger generation use short words for convenience in texts or real life just like in the books as well. Nonetheless, I believe that our world today isn't as apparent in burning physical books but surely some leaders did it in the past (Khmer Rouge) which leads to serious consequences. Still, I can't assume that no one has already started a mass book burning campaign because I'm ignorant about current news, plus any unreasonable choices are made when humanity is really getting weirder day by day.

2. It is definitely a thing that we should worry about today and forever. Even if I'm hopeful that we will never head down that direction, just in case, I'll still be worried.