Too much information...Mr T

After reading such a dramatic passage from Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 to you last week, it got me thinking about information and how it has changed since I was your age (1982 ish...ahhh those were the days).  The information landscape was so very different.  Things were slower and getting relevant, up to date information took time.  Sources were fewer and we perhaps didn't question them so much.  The internet and communication technology has changed things dramatically.  What did Beatty say to Montag and Mildred when he came to check Montag (who was 'sick')?  What was his reason for the censorship of books?  Has anything changed from 1953 when F451 was published?  Do we still moan and whinge (mainly adults I suspect) about the 'dumbing down' of information?  How do you think you would go with your I.S. if you only had access to a library and no contact with the web?