@JaneDevin Said
I agree with Mr Shoes. I don't see how Fahrenheit 451 has anything to do with technology. If anything it's a Lacedaemonian nightmare, which sends the world back more than 2000 years.
The book is a kind of allegory about the time in which it was written. Since World War Two, headlines in newspapers had continually warned the public about Russian spies, some real and some imaginary. The federal government had begun requiring loyalty oaths. Many people were damaged in the hysteria.
August 3, 1948 ? Whitaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of spying for Soviet Union
1949 ? Lyndon Johnson slanders Leland Olds as a Communist.
August 29, 1949 ? first Russian atomic test
October 1949 Communist Party takes control of China,
1949 - Lyndon Johnson calls Leland Olds a communist
January1950 ? Alger Hiss convicted of perjury in connection with spying
January 1950 ? Klaus Fuchs confesses spying for Russians
February 1950 ? Joe McCarthy begins his communist witch hunt
June 1950 ? Korean War begins
Summer of 1950 ? Richard Nixon slanders Hellen Gahagan Douglas as a communist
February 1951 ? Ray Bradbury publishes a version Fahrenheit 451
March 6, 1951 ? Rosenberg espionage trial begins. Confessed spies Harry Gold and David Greenglass testify
1952 ? Elia Kazan testifies about Communist influence in Hollywood.
June 19, 1953 ? Julius Rosenberg executed for espionage
1953 ? Bradbury publishes later version of Fahrenheit 451
1954 ? Bradbury publishes serialized version published in Playboy
1954 - Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam
One might wonder if people at the time thought that the world was burning down, so why not a book about book burning.
Your list of spys should include Elizabeth Bentley. She might have been the one who started the hysteria.