Technology And Isolation In The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury

Christian Lous Lange once said, “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” This relates to the story The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury. In the story Leonard Mead the main character is a free thinker and is different than everybody else. He seems to be the one person who looks forward to human interaction. The use of technology has had a negative effect on this town due to people being so engrossed with technology. The excessive use of technology will lead to isolation and a lack of opposition like it did in the community from the story.
Too much technology will cause a society to become isolated. For example in The Pedestrian, Leonard Mead likes to go for walks late at night, and he has enjoyed this for the past eight years. It seems to be, the narrator writes, “the street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow moving like the shadow of a hawk in midcountry” (174).

For instance, the town that Leonard Mead lives in everybody is the same, and no one knows how to show any creativity. Leonard Mead was different though, as he likes going for walks, and writing but nobody was okay with his career choice. It just so happened, the cop car remarks, “Just walking, Mr. Mead?” “yes” “But you haven't explained for what purpose” (176). In this society walking wasn’t an activity people did; he was being questioned for something that should have been totally normal. Despite the fact, that Leonard Mead was doing nothing wrong; walking was not a norm for the town. It just might have been, Leonard Mead protests, “that's my house” no one answered him (176). Nobody else in the town stood up for Leonard because they didn't even notice what had just happened. These people are too wrapped up in their own world to see what happened to the people around them. After all, the people in the town are not free thinkers; therefore, it lead to a lack of