As the world progresses, dystopias such as Fahrenheit 451 and Wall-E start to look look more and more plausible. In both stories, the government or leader controls the people with censorship and pacification. In these dystopias, people do not interact with each other in a meaningful way, people simply sit and are absorbed in their technology. This technology use is turning the people of these tales into mindless idiots. All of these things are starting to happen in the real world. Both Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Wall-E warn people of society changing in this ever advancing world. These stories warn of governments that will pacify and censor people, and this is becoming a reality. In Fahrenheit 451, Beatty explains to montag the purpose
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In Fahrenheit 451, when Beatty is telling Montag about how the world became the way it is, he talks about what technology has done to people. Technology sped everything up, he says, and whirled, “Man’s head around so fast.. The centrifuge flings off all unnecessary time-wasting thought” (Bradbury 52). Fahrenheit 451 is saying that when technology sped everything up, people lost the time for contemplation and deep thought. The book warns us that too much technology will lead to turning cognisant people into thoughtless drones that work and rest without ever thinking about the world. This warning is present in Wall-E as well. On the spaceship, people are always looking at their screens. Everyone is so focused on their screens that they do not pay attention to their surroundings. The do not even know that there is a pool on their spaceship when they go on it every day. They just wander around mindlessly looking at their screens. These warnings are important because this is starting to happen in real life too. According to the article An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness, “we’re paying a price in terms of our cognitive life because of this virtual lifestyle” (Tara Parker-Pope). Wall-E and Fahrenheit 451 were right, our exposure to too much technology is hurting our cognitive ability. These dystopias warn of technology
In Fahrenheit 451, when Beatty is telling Montag about how the world became the way it is, he talks about what technology has done to people. Technology sped everything up, he says, and whirled, “Man’s head around so fast.. The centrifuge flings off all unnecessary time-wasting thought” (Bradbury 52). Fahrenheit 451 is saying that when technology sped everything up, people lost the time for contemplation and deep thought. The book warns us that too much technology will lead to turning cognisant people into thoughtless drones that work and rest without ever thinking about the world. This warning is present in Wall-E as well. On the spaceship, people are always looking at their screens. Everyone is so focused on their screens that they do not pay attention to their surroundings. The do not even know that there is a pool on their spaceship when they go on it every day. They just wander around mindlessly looking at their screens. These warnings are important because this is starting to happen in real life too. According to the article An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness, “we’re paying a price in terms of our cognitive life because of this virtual lifestyle” (Tara Parker-Pope). Wall-E and Fahrenheit 451 were right, our exposure to too much technology is hurting our cognitive ability. These dystopias warn of technology