The society, described in the anti-utopia of Ray Bradbury, receives information from the interactive TV screens that fill all the house walls, from radio and other means that the government uses for the mass propaganda.

The author depicted people who had lost the ties with each other, with nature, and with the intellectual human heritage. People are in a hurry to or from work, let alone what they think or feel if they talk only about senseless and empty things and are thrilled with material values only.