Technology Exposed In Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man

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Technology is all around us. It’s at school, home on the streets etc. It’s everywhere! Some of us are even addicted to it. We turn to it for everything, work, advice, etc. Some of us even try to discourage it, but the rest of us are blinded by it. The truth is, whether we like it or not, it’ll always be there. In front of us, begging for us to use it until one day, we give up to the cause and join the rest in the reign of technology. Our personal freedom to think, feel, and believe the way we do collides with the advancement of technology. Ray Bradbury warns us that it can interfere with family relationships, human interaction, and personal freedom. He warns us against it but also says that it isn't always bad, as long as you keep it to a limit. …show more content…
Some don’t affect us as much as other do. For example, technology makes us to dependant on it. We ask it to do stuff for us, it entertains us, and we even learn from it, from The Illustrated Man “The Veldt” (Bradbury 18). People also seem to get so addicted that they cut off or limited their social interaction with human beings. Kids tend to stay on their phones and neglect their peers, and so do adults like how they showed in The Twilight Zone “I Sing The Body Electric”. Bradbury even gives us an example about how it may surprise us with harsh realities that were caused by technology. For example when the kids wished their parents dead.They probably had to live as orphans which I can imagine may be miserable and it's all because of anger and technology. Bradbury shows this in The Illustrated Man “The Veldt” (Bradbury 26). You can’t even fully blame the children because anger is a natural thing but the advanced technology in their house made their life either miserable or somewhere near miserable. But technology may not always or ever seem bad. It may actually seem good and

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