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Technological Future In Ray Bradbury's 'The Veldt'

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The story line in Ray Bradbury's “The Veldt” brings forth a vision of a wonderful technology driven future while also evoking a technological nightmare. The tale describes the HappyLife Home where absolutely everything is done for each and every member of the family – where everything is just too good to be true. Both Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt" and nonfiction articles about the use of Artificial Intelligence [AI] in veterinary medicine illustrate some potential benefits and detriments of technology.

Enumerating the benefits of the technological future in “The Veldt” uses up a lot of words, pages and time in that story. The positives begin with the sound proofing of the house against the outside elements. The house is actually sensitive …show more content…

What the parents originally thought was a positive consequence of such technology,however; that they would have absolutely nothing to do, actually turns out to be a negative. Other negatives are discovered through conversations or actions. The parents start to feel incompetent, unable to do things for their kids as well as the house can. The children seem to feel the same way. The technology has made them look at their parents as unnecessary. The end result of the technology is that it not only eliminates the parents in fact, but it takes away their control either because the technology malfunctions or because the children have learned how to manipulate and take control of the …show more content…

Because veterinary medicine deals with many different species of animals, treatment will be more difficult. Animals from different species have different anatomies and different physiological features which cannot all be generalized and abstracted for treatment using AI. It will not be a “one size fits all” in veterinary medicine. In addition, according to Peake, since the FDA does not currently regulate AI in veterinary products, this could create ethical problems as well as legal problems. Therefore, it is good news that educational courses in veterinary medicine schools are beginning to introduce AI for students to grapple with the detrimental effects that may occur with its use and for them to ask pertinent questions about its use. In particular, the ability of a veterinarian to euthanize his patients for medical or financial concerns is a major topic for their discussion

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Scientists, doctors, psychologists, and many others believe that technology has become a major distraction and danger to many, if not all, people. This can be seen in the story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury where the highly advanced technology becomes the children’s soul focus and importance causing them to lose sight of what really matters. In “The Veldt,” George and Lydia, the parents of Wendy and Peter, become concerned when the nursery, a technologically advanced room, continues to play a scene of lions killing their prey. While the nursery was meant to be a helpful tool for the children, it turned into a way for the kids to channel negative thoughts. This prompts George and Lydia to contemplate whether or not to shut down the nursery.

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Transported into the future, Ray Bradbury paints a picture in the reader’s head of the Happy Life Home, filled with technology to fit everyday needs. A family, mom, dad, and two kids, start to slowly fall apart because of being surrounded with technology. In The Veldt, Bradbury uses multiple examples of author’s craft such as personification and tone or mood to help prove and point out a theme included in his story. His theme contained in the story is, influencing children with so much technology early on can not only stir up violent thoughts but, can also cause breaks between friend and family relationships. The first author’s craft that can prove this theme to be true is personification.

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The house does everything from cooking their meals to washing them in the bath or tucking them into bed. This causes the kids to hate their parents when they try to punish the children with taking away some of their technology and stirs up violent thoughts where they express it to the nursery walls. In their imagination, the walls turn into

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Karl Marx once said that “the production of too many useful things results in too many useless people”. I believe that famed writer Ray Bradbury also believed this, as shown in his short story “The Veldt”, where the Hadley family’s children are so accustomed to the machines that they don’t do anything that requires even the slightest bit of effort. Ray Bradbury believes that we’ll take technology for granted, and that it’s getting scary good. Ray Bradbury believes that we’ll take technology for granted. In the story, Mr. Hadley threatens to shut off the house so that they could learn how to do things by themselves.

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During the 1950’s technology was at its finest and climbing to unimaginable heights throughout the United States. In “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury a family experiences the unfortunate consequences of technology when used obsessively. Bradbury uses the growing tensions between the parents and their children to demonstrate the idea that technology has a negative effect on family relationships. The Nursery seemed like a great place for the children to express themselves in, but it soon became the object of all their attention and affection, which created a strain on Peter and Wendy’s relationship with their parents. One of the first signs that the relationship between the parents and children was becoming tense and a taking a negative turn

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