Views of the future

I've just finished reading two views of the future. Number one was a classic I've been meaning to read for ages,Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The next was one of my favourite books of all time, Futuretrack 5 by Robert Westall which can be hard to find. It's one of those books I read in a library years and years ago and then spent years searching for it when the internet came about. I eventually found it in an Amazon Z store.

Both I recommend. Farenheit 451 is great view of when we give up books in favour of interactive TV, kind of where we are going with the internet, but with more censorship.
Futuretrack 5 is when we seperate the classes, give the middle classes made up jobs like racing yachtsman, or pilot (one of hundreds of pilots vy to get to fly the concorde on it's one flight per month, all the real work is done by robots or techs). The lower classes are away behind wires with inventive ways to kill themselves (Futuretrack 5 is motorcylce racing on death traps). Meanwhile the government is trying to raise a new population who will live like it's the middle ages. In comes Kitson who ends up fleeing his tech life to race motorcycles and find out the truth. Great book.