Fahrenheit 451: Similarities To Today's World In Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury describes how the world would be like in the twieny-fourth century. The things that he wrote about in the novel are similar to the things which extict today. The technology level in the novel is more advanced. The billboards in the novel, were stretch from the standard size of today,today to two hundred-feet long. They had to stretch them because the drivers drove so fast they could not read or see what the billboard was advertisting. In result they made them longer so they would be able to see them. “Have you seen…last” (Bradbury 9) The electronic bee which Mildred Montag puts in he