Fahrenheit 451: Predictions When reading Ray Bradbury’s description of the future in Fahrenheit 451, it would be very easy for many people to laugh at his predictions. Being written in the early 1950’s it is very understandable that Bradbury’s vision of the future may have been very distorted. Fahrenheit 451 did prove to be a very influential book about social criticism and censorship. Of course the most obvious prediction that was incorrect , and the main point of the whole book, is that in the twenty-fourth century books are forbidden. Society today, if anything promotes the exact opposite. Books are glorified and held in the highest esteem. U.S. culture