Fahrenheit 451 Technology Essay

Human’s greatest achievements have brought progress to others, but this “progress” can seldom lead others to melancholy in the future. The book Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, is about a potential future that awaits us. The book deciphered how people don’t read books due to the technology made for them. The more prominent the technology was, the more others can read other commodities online. Although people do not read books, it shows how people are not “in play” to interact with things other than an electric device, which introduces them to social solitude with the human life. Despite how other people feel about this book, it’s still relevant in our society, due to the book basically predicting the fate of other offspring after …show more content…
Although this is a prediction, but this led up to dependency of technology; Social isolation. An example of this is how commoners use technology in this era. Teens mainly text others and call others. Typically, teenagers use their technology to communicate and socialize with people they cannot see physically. Generations Z and Alpha(people who were born between 1995 and 2025) are the only generations who will never know how it feels without technology, so they will gradually build a bubble for themselves and essentially drown out the outside world, as they rely on technology more than the other generations. Younger generations are so used to the virtual world called the Internet, they only use it as a source of communication, and not wanting to talk face-to-face. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. Itś more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories”(Bradbury, 157). As the younger generations depend more on technology, they rarely ever go outside and explore the world. This is a negative impact with how the humans interact with the environment, because if they do not pay attention to the outside world, who will? “The mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse”, …show more content…
One of the most powerful military leaders and emperors of all time is afraid of paper with newsprint, because he was afraid of what the media would say about him. Napoleon gained absolute control in managing what books were appropriate for the people and what books he wanted to fix or ban entirely. Fahrenheit 451 resembles Bonaparte’s situation because he government did not want the citizens to be offended or unhappy with any book. “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them”(Bradbury). This quote is highly significant in this book because in the book, Montag was a fireman and he burned books for a living, which is paradoxical because firefighters are supposed to fight fires, hence the name, not start the fires. In addition, the book resembles 1940’s Nazi Germany, when Adolf Hitler burned books that were so-called inferior to the Germans: the Tanakh, anything published by Jewish authors, and anything Hitler did not fathom. In the book, the government made a scheme to burn every book in the United States, but logically, cannot be done because someone, at least one American citizen, likes to read books. People are going to have a curious thought, and want to read a book, so it’s entirely impossible. “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something