Fahrenheit 451: Similarities to American Society Fahrenheit 451 is a science fiction book that still reflects our current world. Bradbury does a great job of predicting what the world would be like in the future; the future for his period and also for ours. The society Bradbury describes is, in many ways, similar to the one we live in now. We always ask for more advanced machinery and compared to the past we have become a much more technological society. Lately, more and more people not only want more technology, but they want it to be faster. Things like faster computers, faster Internet connections, better cell phone connections, pagers, cars with more power, answering machines, PDAs, etc. are in high demand. People don't want to waste time anymore. We want things to be done faster without much effort. We want things to take less time to make so we can have more time for other things. Their society is exactly like ours. In addition to having technologically advanced cars, they also have much wider speed limits, so people can get where they want to go much faster. Clarisse and Montag make it clear to the reader that they live in a fast-paced world when they first meet. Before Clarisse runs into her house, they notice how fast the drivers go who "'don't know what grass is, or flowers because they never see them slowly,' she said. "If I showed a driver a green patch, oh yeah ! he would say, that's grass! A pink stain! That's a rose garden! The brown spots are cows'" (9). Their speed limit is so high that everything they see seems blurry. They never see objects; they only see colors. Our speed limit is not as high as theirs, but people usually go much faster than the speed limit. Another reason their society reflects the one we live in is that people are becoming more and more violent towards each other to Montag that he's "scared of kids my age. They kill each other… Six of my friends have been killed in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car accidents. I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid" (30).