Advances In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

Technology advances every day as time goes on, with new cars, new phones, and even robots that can clean your house and serve food. But as technology advances, more and more problems arise. The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, demonstrates how technology causes problems for people, like TVs that change the way you think, AI controls dogs that hurt people, and headphones that distract people. Technology has also been a problem in America since the first technology product was made. For instance, the article “Endless Scrolling Bad for Youth Health” by Luis Velarde says, “We are living in the middle of a youth mental health crisis in America” (Velarde). Leading to technology such as electronics, AI, and headphones causes problems in everyday

Another explanation for electronics causing problems is changing the way people behave, with social media. For instance, a professor, Anna Lembke, explained that social media has taken the work out of how we connect with other human beings. More than 95% of people aged 13 to 17 in the country said they use a social media platform. Page 42 in Fahrenheit 451 when Mildred, the wife of a firefighter Montag, thinks that she has to act like the perfect person because of what the screen is telling her to be. This shows how technology changes the way that we think and behave because it makes us think about what we see on social media and how we are supposed to act. AI has become a huge platform for many people to use nowadays, but not all people use it for good reasons. An AI website called Chat GDP, can tell you any information about something or do any work. For example, at my sister Chelsey’s college, 2 students used this website to write their final paper. This causes problems with their learning because they are not learning anything about their topic and how to write their paper. Also, AI can hurt other people physically and

The book also has an example of AI hurting people, with a mechanical hound that goes to people's houses to get them out of their houses so then the firemen can get the books to burn them. These examples explain how AI can cause problems by cheating in schools or creating fake information. The final way technology can cause problems is with headphones. When people use headphones they tend to turn the volume high, this makes the sound waves go directly to your ear drum. According to the American Osteopathic Association, one in five teenagers suffers from hearing loss to some degree because of the sound waves being too rough in the ear (The Washington Post). This concept is also used in the book Fahrenheit 451. Unlike hearing loss, headphones can help people with their mental health issues. Headphones can help improve your mood and restore focus, enabling you to move forward with renewed energy (The Washington Post). Just like Mildred, she used a device called a seashell phone to escape from reality. The seashells help her eliminate the environment around her so she can feel happy and