It is baffling that Bradbury was able to write The Murderer in 1953.
The transistor was invented in 1947 and the first fully transistorized radio wasn't available until a year after Bradbury published this, but he got all the way through predicting ringtones, smartwatches, housing automation, GPS digital dispatch/gig economy jobs, and smarmy digital assistants in the span of a single story.
I am not aware of a more prescient bit of science fiction. Bradbury knew how people worked and what we'd try to make.
The transistor was invented in 1947 and the first fully transistorized radio wasn't available until a year after Bradbury published this, but he got all the way through predicting ringtones, smartwatches, housing automation, GPS digital dispatch/gig economy jobs, and smarmy digital assistants in the span of a single story.
I am not aware of a more prescient bit of science fiction. Bradbury knew how people worked and what we'd try to make.
If you haven't read The Murderer, please do so.