The world's books on fire--

image from Truffaut's movie of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Dear Ray Bradbury,

In Fahrenheit 451, you predicted shallow stories on flat-screen televisions that made people drift away from books. You predicted people so caught up in their portable media that they forgot to interact with others. And you showed us how easy it is to conform to a mass media.

You did not live to see book treasures