KalkiSovietica

"…it is worth pausing, on the occasion of Ray Bradbury's death, to notice how uncannily accurate was his vision of the numb, cruel future we now inhabit. Mr. Bradbury's most famous novel, "Fahrenheit 451," features wall-size television screens that are the centerpieces of "parlors" where people spend their evenings watching interactive soaps and vicious slapstick, live police chases and true-crime dramatizations that invite viewers to help catch the criminals. People wear "seashell" transistor radios that fit into their ears. Note the perversion of quaint terms like "parlor" and "seashell," harking back to bygone days and vanished place