Technology can be spotted nearly everywhere a person is in this day and age. It consumes the human race. It allows people to discover millions of new and lifesaving things. However, it can also cause awful and even fatal effects. Technology can have a significant impact on physical, mental, and social health, as portrayed in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.
The physical impact of technology is shocking. Extended use can lead to brain changes. The prefrontal cortex is the section of the brain that controls the functions of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors (“Prefrontal Cortex”). The brain’s prefrontal cortex does not completely develop until age twenty-five (Bowman). This can be especially harmful for adolescents that use technology excessively. …show more content…
Numerous people spend an astounding amount of more than seventy hours a week on the internet or their phone (Dunn 80). That is an average of ten hours a day, which is more than most people sleep. Men use technology for two main reasons: to find information and for entertainment, while women, on the other hand, primarily use technology to take care of their social relationships (Kowalski). People often want to be seen as who they want to be, rather than who they really are, so they use social media to change and improve who they are. This can eventually cause people to try to alter themselves into the person they virtually created. Social dynamics have changed as face-to-face communication has been replaced. People no longer want to see each other if they can just as easily get in touch with others by texting them or friending them on Facebook. Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler note that “’We end up staying in touch with more acquaintances. But that doesn’t mean we have more friends’” (Szumski 35). In Fahrenheit 451, the technology-consumed world that Montag lived in was torturous for him, but normal for the rest of the community. The technology had such a significant impact on them that when Montag asked his wife to turn off the parlor, she refused and said, “That’s my family” (Bradbury 46). People that did not realize what technology had done to them never experienced personal emotions. All their emotions were missing and they rarely interacted with one another therefore, social relationships were absent in the society. Clarisse informed Montag that her uncle said people used to sit outside on their porches in rocking chairs and just talk (Bradbury 60). That was a foreign idea for
The physical impact of technology is shocking. Extended use can lead to brain changes. The prefrontal cortex is the section of the brain that controls the functions of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors (“Prefrontal Cortex”). The brain’s prefrontal cortex does not completely develop until age twenty-five (Bowman). This can be especially harmful for adolescents that use technology excessively. …show more content…
Numerous people spend an astounding amount of more than seventy hours a week on the internet or their phone (Dunn 80). That is an average of ten hours a day, which is more than most people sleep. Men use technology for two main reasons: to find information and for entertainment, while women, on the other hand, primarily use technology to take care of their social relationships (Kowalski). People often want to be seen as who they want to be, rather than who they really are, so they use social media to change and improve who they are. This can eventually cause people to try to alter themselves into the person they virtually created. Social dynamics have changed as face-to-face communication has been replaced. People no longer want to see each other if they can just as easily get in touch with others by texting them or friending them on Facebook. Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler note that “’We end up staying in touch with more acquaintances. But that doesn’t mean we have more friends’” (Szumski 35). In Fahrenheit 451, the technology-consumed world that Montag lived in was torturous for him, but normal for the rest of the community. The technology had such a significant impact on them that when Montag asked his wife to turn off the parlor, she refused and said, “That’s my family” (Bradbury 46). People that did not realize what technology had done to them never experienced personal emotions. All their emotions were missing and they rarely interacted with one another therefore, social relationships were absent in the society. Clarisse informed Montag that her uncle said people used to sit outside on their porches in rocking chairs and just talk (Bradbury 60). That was a foreign idea for