What Are The Effects Of Technology In Fahrenheit 451

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It has came to our attention how our society rejects to acknowledge how what a person does today could affect others in the future; although the ironic factor of these widely read books written almost sixty-five years ago has identified our world today and showed us how dangerous our simple actions could affect us over time. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury has enabled us readers to acknowledge the effects of technology's advancement by showing us how something as valuable as classic literature, music, and art can begin to lose meaning as presented in their society. Considering how literature has shown to have such a powerful affect on our society and how it has predicted the effects of our constant dedication to technology, Fahrenheit 451 has presented a valuable message and warning to those who read the novel explaining how their world could result to our future if our society is not careful …show more content…
Certain people have different ways to vote indeed, such as in the novel, Mildred shared with her group of friends how they would vote for the candidate that was best looking. This was shown very little interest in the benefit of the environment as a whole and more of a self satisfaction. In our generation today we are ironically faced with somewhat the same issue that was presented to Montag as hearing the opinions of Mildred and her friends. The article Falsification fears; A messy vote in Argentina proves us guilty of the same crime as we post on our social medias these “harmless” photoshopped pictures to lighten up the mood. Not taking these important elections seriously could affect us a whole but our society rejects these views in order to distract the world from the reality of these campaigns. Although social media is used to promote these candidates as well, it does not change the fact that they distract the real purpose for these

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