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psibomber t1_iu269mz wrote

Reply to comment by open_closet in TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands. by open_closet

There's a scene in the book where someone uses the internet to chat in a VR chatroom... like 40 years before the internet was invented. There was a short story about a smart home.

Bradbury was an author far ahead of his time.

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TheAmbiguousRedditor t1_iu29tr9 wrote

What about the little seashells everyone wears in their ears playing music!

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Littlestan t1_iu2f08y wrote

You put those back in the bathroom where they belong!

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psibomber t1_iu2i8u2 wrote

They never explained how to use the three seashells.

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TheStrangestOfKings t1_iu2odh6 wrote

A lot of Sci Fi authors predicted the creation of the internet or smth comparable to it, tbf. I imagine it wasn’t an uncommon trope at the time

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OcotilloWells t1_iu30ro8 wrote

Someone wrote about an atomic bomb before there was one. He got a visit from the FBI during WWII. I want to say it was Issac Asimov, but I'm probably wrong.

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lordthistlewaiteofha t1_iu3sjlm wrote

Not what you're talking about, but HG Wells wrote a story about an atomic bomb in 1913, The World Set Free.

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KanoeKnight t1_iu4n43u wrote

And TVs in your house that can take up a whole wall

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