Speculative Thinking In Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron

Throughout your lifetime, have you thought about what will happen in the future? Speculative thinking is the thinking of hypothetical, theoretical ideas of what could happen. For generations through entertainment, media, education, and everyday conversations, people use speculative thinking to raise awareness many current issues of our world and the future of the Earth and human race by depicting the manu events that could happen in our world. The authors of “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Feed” by MT Anderson, and “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, video games like “Fallout”, and the movie “2012” directed by Roland Emmerich all influence readers, viewers, and gamers to use speculative thinking to raise awareness of the Earth

As the plot develops about maintaining an “equal society”, the reader starts speculate the idea of equality and question, “can a society really be truly equal” and what the image of an equal society. In addition, the story “Feed” by MT Anderson jumps to the future where social media has taken over humans, which is a fear people think about as generations begins to develop the use of social media. The character of “Feed” convey the life of how social media “The Feed” took over the minds of teenagers and the loss of life of Titus and his generation. The event of the hacker, the feelings and responses of Titus towards the painting of the rudder in the hospital rooms, to the interactions of the party that happens, depict the power of social media that's developing in society. After being disconnected from the Feed, Titus looks at a painting and believes that there wasn’t “anything interesting about [the] picture at all and “nothing [was] about to happen or just had happened” (Anderson 48). This shows the reader the effects of social media and how it can take over someone’s life as if it was apart of humans. The reader speculates the role of social media in humans’ lives and how the danger of social media foreshadows the takeover of social media in the future if we continue to depend on the internet of human lives as the reader finishes “The Feed”. Lastly, the story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, takes place in an empty technological advanced house after suffering through a nuclear disaster. The many events depicted from the automatic routine of the house to the fire of the shows the reader the power of technology and nuclear energy over humans. The end of the story, “among the ruins” of the fire, “one wall stood alone” which tells the reader that power of technology