Heitman claims that Thoreau’s ideas and technology can co-exist. Heitman also states in a quote saying “The ideal that Thoreau describes invites a parallel with today’s laptop, which allows us to bring a universe of knowledge to a verdant meadow, a shadowy forest, and a gurgling book.” First, I kinda do kinda see Heitman’s claim as to whether technology can co-exist or it either can’t. Henry David Thoreau says “That if we read one letter that has stuff about murder, people being robbed, or killed we wouldn’t be able to put it down and we would never read another-- we would only need one.” Sometimes that is true and sometimes it is not. In Danny Heitman’s story he says that Thoreau’s never read a memorable newspaper. My opinion would be
