wouldn’t the internet, a digital network designed with the sole purpose of sharing information more conveniently and accessibly, completely invalidate the basic premise of Fahrenheit 451??
the whole story is fucking pointless if it includes the ultimate plethora of knowledge and information, which’ll probably be government supplied
No, but it would necessitate a tonal shift.
Unusually for sci-fi, Ray Bradbury is a bit of a technophobe, and the real intended moral of the book is very, very close to boomer cartoons about youths on their cellumaphones, except about television.
The destruction of books was possible because people en masse did not even care any more.