“The Pedestrian” really shows Ray Bradbury’s skepticism of technology and progress it has made in "The Pedestrian." In this story, a popular way to help us pass time is shown through the perspective of it being regressive, outdated, and abnormal. Mr. Mead lives in a time in society when you are almost required to have a “viewing screen” in his house, Mr. Mead doesn’t do anything wrong by walking every night the authority in the story deems it as wrong and it will throw off the entire social stability of the community because the “viewing screen” is the only way for the government to distract the public and keep them under the microscope in a sense. So Mr. Mead is the off balance in the story because when he is not in front of his “viewing screen
