Today, technology has a positive effect on us as a whole, but the negative effects of technology are starting to dominate people. In history, many authors have written books in the attempt to convey the potential downsides of technology. Fahrenheit 451 could potentially be a crystal ball. Ray Bradbury foresaw the negative future of technology in an overly dramatic view. However, if technology is produced at the rate that Ray Bradbury predicted, there might be a problem. The problem would be that people would practically be walking zombies that do not think for themselves, live meaningless lives, and do not have any real knowledge.
Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Bradbury graduated from Los Angeles high school in 1938. He did not attend college but in 1943 he became a full time writer and began to contribute short stories to the periodical. In …show more content…
Bradbury discussed his reason for even writing the book and his view on technology. Mathew Ingram, the author, discussed his view on technology and what he thought about Bradbury’s views. Bradbury said his reason for writing the book was to make a statement about how society might be in the future. He wrote about the possibility of books and other original forms of media being replaced by TV. Bradbury pictured books being outlawed because people would become anti-intellectual. There is ammunition for Bradbury’s views too. People do spend hours on websites instead of actually using their time to gain real knowledge. Bradbury did not foresee that social media would be created by us. He also did not look at the other benefits of social media, which is communication. There still are distractions, but technology that we have could be used for so much more and the potential of technology is endless
Ray Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois. He was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. Bradbury graduated from Los Angeles high school in 1938. He did not attend college but in 1943 he became a full time writer and began to contribute short stories to the periodical. In …show more content…
Bradbury discussed his reason for even writing the book and his view on technology. Mathew Ingram, the author, discussed his view on technology and what he thought about Bradbury’s views. Bradbury said his reason for writing the book was to make a statement about how society might be in the future. He wrote about the possibility of books and other original forms of media being replaced by TV. Bradbury pictured books being outlawed because people would become anti-intellectual. There is ammunition for Bradbury’s views too. People do spend hours on websites instead of actually using their time to gain real knowledge. Bradbury did not foresee that social media would be created by us. He also did not look at the other benefits of social media, which is communication. There still are distractions, but technology that we have could be used for so much more and the potential of technology is endless