Persuasive Essay On Technology In Fahrenheit 451

Technology over the years has led to many new and interesting ideas, however these ideas have had a harmful effect on people. People claim that many benefits is good cause to outweigh the cons of technology. However as many important people claim, it takes 100 truths to erase and forget a lie. Bradbury, in Fahrenheit 451 explains the possible loss of feeling of love, hate, guilt, etc. and a sense of connection that comes with technology. Nicholas Carr also further explains this in his article --"Is Google Making Us Stupid-- to describe the loss of thinking-related strength that comes with technology.No matter how good the tech is, one problem could lead to extremely terrible side-effects and problems.The overuse and over-reliance on technology has led to possibilities of forgetting the past, controlling our present lives and our future and making us switch to an over-reliance on artificial intelligence. Technology’s development over time slowly begins to take away our ability to process information by …show more content…
We, instead of relying on humans to solve our problems, turn to artificial intelligence as our confidant. We consider technology as our family, as those we run to when we are in trouble. Bradbury’s dystopian world emphasizes this with Mildred and her obsession with the parlour. When Montag tells her to “‘turn the parlour off’”, she replies that the parlour is “[her] family”(Bradbury 48-49). As we continue to rely on tech, our intelligence continues to deteriorate. Carr explains that “as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence”(Carr). We will continue to deteriorate to the point that our minds will be replaced. There will be no way to fix it because intelligence is a thing worked hard for, forgetting is easier than remembering it