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Fahrenheit 451 Technology Essay

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The future of science and technology is an aspect of our society that we cannot even begin to fully imagine. We do however know that it will change as time goes by. Think about the future and all the new ways of technology that could be possible. Innovations and creativity are shaping our world right now. Throughout Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury it portrays that the possibilities are endless. Now a days we are able to have robots that help us with our everyday life. The main ways technology and science are going to make an impact are in self driving cars, construction robots, and nurse robots. First of all, the pure programming taking place is used with the Mechanical hound that “doesn’t like or dislike it just functions”(Bradbury 12). Self …show more content…

In addition, the Mechanical hound is able to hunt down any “free thinkers” which shows how the government controls the society by not using books. Construction Robots are able to build buildings 20 times faster than average people showing that they can help save time with tasks that many people would take to long to do. The mechanical hound helps in order to find certain people just how robots are able to help build different buildings. It also states that the mechanical hound “slept but did not sleep”(Bradbury 21). Instead of having humans who need a lot of necessities to survive, robots don’t need as much which makes it so that they can work more. One newer type of robot is a Nurse robot are able to “act as doctors while doctors are off work” and in Japan they have tested multiple times being able to give their patients medicine at the right time or calm them down during times they feel unsafe” (Gregoire 14). Just how technology is capable of helping with humans emotions by being introduced through Mildred, the main character’s wife, she has “little seashells…[with] an electric ocean of sound of music and talk coming in” (Bradbury

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