> Most of all, Mr. Bradbury knew how the future would feel: louder,
> faster, stupider, meaner, increasingly inane and violent. Collective
> cultural amnesia, anhedonia, isolation. The hysterical censoriousness
> of political correctness. Teenagers killing one another for kicks.
> Grown-ups read
The character complains that he's relentlessly pestered with calls
from friends and employers, salesmen and pollsters, people calling
simply because they can. Mr. Bradbury's vision of "tired commuters
with their wrist radios, talking to their wives, saying, 'Now I'm at
Forty-third, now I'm at F
