In their novel Roadside Picnic, Arcady and Boris Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writers, take in an in-depth look on humanity’s unending curiosity about new unexplored objects. While doing that they show that technology and new faucets can be an advantage for humanity and simultaneously, bring us to disappointment or undesirable result. According to Strugatsky, new marvels “objects have benefited humanity, although we can never forget that in our Euclidean world every stick has two ends…” In other words, Strugatsky brothers examine the gains and losses of our excessive and irresistible desire for exploring new factors and gadgets. There is no certainty in what direction it may turn and face us. Strugatsky brothers introduce the Zone which appear to be near the Harmont town. It represents partially city ruins, the plant buildings, a pit, the desert flat area and mountains. The Zone has own …show more content…
This group of objects is badly studied and people either know nothing or have only tittle-tattle information since there no experiments were conducted in regards of their danger. So-called businessmen believe that the man is the only one intelligent species until the new breed of stalker has appeared – armed with technology (126). In fact, these businessmen were the creators of this analogy. Strugatsky brothers reveal some of the darker sides of our desire for technological progress when we even incapable of noticing the moment when it happens and we still “search for change in wrong places” (126). For example, Burbridge was so obsessed with the Golden Sphere (presumably, it granted any wishes) that he even didn’t care neither about his feet damaged by the slime (70) nor about his own son when he sent him to the Zone for the Golden