Is the future as bright as we would like to see it? Are there any dangers, or at least warnings that we have to be careful of? In his text, “The Pedestrian”, Ray Bradbury, tries to give an idea of what he expects the future to be:
The story is set in 2053. It is eight o’ clock in the evening and Leonard Mead is walking around in the streets. It is freezing cold and every place is deserted and dark. The reason why it is dark is that there are no lamp posts – everything is moonlit.
Besides the fact that there is no road lightning, all the avenues are empty, which is quite weird considering that the action is set in a city of three million citizens. As this is a million town with over a million inhabitants and there are avenues, I definitely think this would be if not a city of America then maybe a city in the western world.
People are told to be quite like zombies, just sitting home in the evening after jobs, watching TV. The one thing about TV is that the people in this age, where the story is set, don’t watch news and so, they only sit in front of the TV to be entertained which is expressed when it says in the story: “Eight thirty P.M.? Time for a dozen assorted murders? A quiz? A revue? A comedian falling off the stage?” This is also the reason why there are no people in the streets at night.
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