Technology is a substantial benefit in life. The internet is used tons of times during the day, but eventually, technology has a detrimental outcome. Technology helps advance a society, but the lack of relationships and human communication, oppression by a large governmental or corporate institution, and use of futuristic technology caused by advancements is dangerous. Humans are using less social skills due to constant messaging with their fingertips. Governments and institutions are beginning to take total power because of the lack of knowledge in the community. New advancements such as self-driving cars prohibit the knowledge or skill gained through new experiences. Today’s problems with technology are depicted throughout Bradbury’s Fahrenheit
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People in WALL-E only know how to communicate through a screen. Unlimited food and care cause the people to be listless. The laziness of the people contributes to the inability to make conversation. For example, two people are sitting next to each other on a video chat asking what one another wants to do for the day (WALL-E). Even the simplest questions the people ask each other has to be coming through their hover chair television screen. There is no reason for the people to ask questions in this manner, but they do not know the proper way to communicate because the technology they use has brainwashed them to a point where they cannot function without it. In a school, one student who did not use technology for a day wrote, “the fact that I was not able to communicate with anyone via technology was almost unbearable” (Parker-Pope). This is how society is structured, which is alarming. Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 displays the same problem with the humans as well. For example, Mildred does not remember when or where she met Montag. Mildred tries to think of the answer, but simply draws a blank. She says that she does not “remember where or when [she] met [her] husband” (Bradbury 40). The lack of remembrance of when one meets their husband shows lots of miscommunication in society. Mildred cares more about listening to the buzzing in her ears than focusing on where she met her husband. Bradbury shows how the advancements such as earbuds and music limit mental and social growth in a
People in WALL-E only know how to communicate through a screen. Unlimited food and care cause the people to be listless. The laziness of the people contributes to the inability to make conversation. For example, two people are sitting next to each other on a video chat asking what one another wants to do for the day (WALL-E). Even the simplest questions the people ask each other has to be coming through their hover chair television screen. There is no reason for the people to ask questions in this manner, but they do not know the proper way to communicate because the technology they use has brainwashed them to a point where they cannot function without it. In a school, one student who did not use technology for a day wrote, “the fact that I was not able to communicate with anyone via technology was almost unbearable” (Parker-Pope). This is how society is structured, which is alarming. Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 displays the same problem with the humans as well. For example, Mildred does not remember when or where she met Montag. Mildred tries to think of the answer, but simply draws a blank. She says that she does not “remember where or when [she] met [her] husband” (Bradbury 40). The lack of remembrance of when one meets their husband shows lots of miscommunication in society. Mildred cares more about listening to the buzzing in her ears than focusing on where she met her husband. Bradbury shows how the advancements such as earbuds and music limit mental and social growth in a