Technology began with the invention of communication by means of using simple tools; however, society’s needs evolved as did the types of technology available to be used. Literary short stories, “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut, and the “Pedestrian” written by Ray Bradbury, demonstrates how a society excessively dependent on technology could ultimately be controlled by outside influences, resulting in the eventual loss of themselves and their personal ideologies. In the “Pedestrian”, the city was portrayed as being desolate, without activity due to the death of magazine, books, and the emergence of people. According to Mr, Mead “ [He] had not written in years because magazine and books didn’t sell any longer... The tombs, ill
