Rest in Peace Mr Bradbury. To describe this man would be...ahead of his time? Many of the then seemingly bizzare items in his work actually predicted the current state of life as it is. One example of this would be how he mentioned the use of ATM machines back when nobody even thought about them. The first short story of his that I read and still till to this day is my favourite short story of all time is the late Mr Bradbury's 'The Pedestrian'. I remember needing a piece of material for my English work and stumbled across this, and boy even as a youngster I was taken back. This is no Twilight no Harry Potter no whatever kids are into these days yet it almost seems like this is stuff is definetly fiction the chilling part is that how real it has become. the Pedestrian is about a man who goes for a walk and quite enjoys going for walks. But what he notices when goes for a walk is how the rest of the human population is stuck inside watching tv like drones, and he a robot comes out and charges him a fine for walking, a totalarian state by being brainwashed. Now The Pedestrian was made in 1951!! Now in this time the craze for television is not nearly as high as it is today and half of "the lights" he described that are on could be seen to mean computers,smartphones,laptops today as well. Thus WAY ahead of his time. I don't know if you look around the streets these days, but thats pretty much what goes on. I mean have you ever hopped on a bus? Or walked around the streets, all you see is people looking at their palm like a bunch of zombies which white headphones in their ears connected to the matrix (lol).
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Please do give it a read of the short story here
http://resources.mhs.vic.edu.au/shortstories/downloads/The_Pedestrian.pdf
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