Farenheit 451-#1

what is the major theme of this novel? why is this theme important to a teenager living in 2007?

The major theme of this book, Farenheit 451, can be condensed down to conflict between knowledge and ignorance. After reading this book, I thought about the question, "does ignorance lead us to happy life, while knowledge destroys our life?"
It is about how we became estranged toward the book, furthermore, having knowledge.
In the book, people tries to make the society equal by banning people from learning or having anykind of knowledge, which results them to burn all the books.
The government tries to hide the truth about the sad and horrible life from people. In order to do that, they give people endless entertainment and takes away the books.
Minorities who recognized its importance, were punished and people began to forget about the war and complexities of life. They chase the "happiness" but what they got was "ignorance".
The book itself was a quite shock for me, because I am very similar to character Mildred, who depends my knowledge and life on modern technologies, such as computer. As it is easier to surf web than reading the book, I tend to stop reading the books when I have a choice.