Another major difference between both societies is the advancement in technology; although both have found out a way to make these creations more profound, the purposes and structures are unlike. One example of Fahrenheit 451’s technology would be the mechanical hound. When Montag goes to work, he is confronted by the hound. “The hound half rose in its kennel and looked at him with green-blue neon light flickering in its suddenly activated eye bulbs. It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion,” (23). The quote describes the complexity of the Mechanical Hound’s purposes; to help the firemen with their jobs