In the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the future is bleak. The modern world is ruled by entertainment and simplicity; the novel shows a world that might be ours one day. In this dystopian future made by Bradbury, books are banned. Books have long been banned as a consequence of the ever-changing technology, which shortened and condensed knowledge. People in this world started to burn books because perhaps they held something that they didn’t like, and so the book burning culture began. The people in the world thought books to be frivolous objects that plague the mind and confuse the reader. Our protagonist, Guy Montag, lives in this desolate world and works as a fireman. A fireman’s job in this dystopia is to set houses and
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When Beatty confronts Montag he states, “Picture it. Nineteenth century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, sped up by your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. […] Classics cut to fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve line dictionary resume.” (Bradbury, 52) In the process of condensing knowledge, books themselves were banned. Modern life became a mix between work, entertainment, and sleep. The population became less educated over the generations, and most knowledge was lost. With the rise of technology in our lives, many people fear that something like that may happen in our world. A new term that has been coined describes our reliance on search engines, the Google effect. According to Dr Maria Wimber, a lecturer at the University of Birmingham's School of Psychology, “the Google effect” makes us less likely to remember important information because we feel as if we can always rely on the Internet to supply us with knowledge. In addition, this effect is not only applicable to the general public. With the dawn of new technologies and databases, even doctors and care practitioners are susceptible some sort of the “Google effect.” With this argument, Smythe states “…convenience and access to tools that do not require that physicians and other providers to maintain information in neural pathways will lead to an increasing dependence on information sources external to
When Beatty confronts Montag he states, “Picture it. Nineteenth century man with his horses, dogs, carts, slow motion. Then, in the twentieth century, sped up by your camera. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. […] Classics cut to fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve line dictionary resume.” (Bradbury, 52) In the process of condensing knowledge, books themselves were banned. Modern life became a mix between work, entertainment, and sleep. The population became less educated over the generations, and most knowledge was lost. With the rise of technology in our lives, many people fear that something like that may happen in our world. A new term that has been coined describes our reliance on search engines, the Google effect. According to Dr Maria Wimber, a lecturer at the University of Birmingham's School of Psychology, “the Google effect” makes us less likely to remember important information because we feel as if we can always rely on the Internet to supply us with knowledge. In addition, this effect is not only applicable to the general public. With the dawn of new technologies and databases, even doctors and care practitioners are susceptible some sort of the “Google effect.” With this argument, Smythe states “…convenience and access to tools that do not require that physicians and other providers to maintain information in neural pathways will lead to an increasing dependence on information sources external to