Yes, there is no question that the story could have been set in the past, in the aftermath of some cataclysmic world conflict. But that would only dull Bradbury's point. He is sending us a warning: Technology that can be utilized to make things easier for us, do many of our daily, mundane chores. And it is also technology that can be harnessed to bring about vast destruction.
Of course past technologies were used in the service of war. Catapults, bows and arrows, spears, canons, rifles, mustard gas, etc., were all technologies, and they caused horrible bloodshed and death. But the technologies of today and tomorrow may well bring about the total annihilation of mankind.
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