Bradbury. Jumbled thoughts.

It seems obvious that the thing that motivated Bradbury to write F451 is that he loved anything futuristic. In the interviews, he talks about falling in love with the comics he read in the sunday paper. He says he liked to collect them because he loved that they were about the future. I feel the book came to life as it did because he was living it.. Not, of course, in the way the characters in the book live it.. But Bradbury heard of Hitler burning books in the streets of Berlin. He said that if you are not reading, you cannot be part of a democracy. I think this caused him to feel the way he did about the burning of books and definitely motivated him to write F451. Bradbury's literature definitely effected us in terms of technology, although, I wouldn't go so far as to say that we only have what we do because of him. I'm sure Ray Bradbury wasn't the only person to be thinking the way he did, but was one of only a few to bring his thoughts to life in the form of a novel. All the things we have today i'm sure would've been invented regardless of whether Bradbury had written this novel or not. I think a good question to ask would be whether or not they'd have been invented in time for us to benefit from them or if they'd only come to life for future generations.