Technology In Fahrenheit 451

"Technology is like a giant raging river and we young turks jump into the middle of it and think we can master it. As time passes, we come to truly understand how big it is and we grow tired. We drift over to the edge of the river, where it flows a little slower, and eventually into our own backwater where we do our jobs and watch the new young turks try to master the river...." (Anonymous). This entire quote encapsulates the entire theme and overall story of Fareheit 451 perfectly with an emphasis on the unknown future and issues that can be caused by technology altogether. In the science fiction, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury writes a cautionary tale about how technology can ruin our society with more and more evolutionary advancements ultimately

While technology can help save lives and provide entertainment, society should spend less time on technology because it can render society with no free thought, it prevents social interaction, and it ruins relationships all of which rather than the use of books as predicted in the novel by Bradbury.

Bradbury feared and tried to warn society about a world in which more and more insistence is brought upon further developing technology, turning our society into a mundane dystopia. Building upon this, an article published by Jon Johnson further expands upon the negative effects of new technology in the article: Negative effects of technology: What to know he discusses: “A 2017 study in young adults aged 19–32 years found that people with higher social media

"Society" and government in Fahrenheit 451 manipulate the dystopian citizens through media, overpopulation, and censorship most evident when Captain Beatty proclaims; “We must all be alike. Not everyone is born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone is made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.” (Bradbury 58). It is no secret that every person in the novel is straightforwardly the same and with this, there is simply no need for socialization when everyone thinks, acts, and behaves all the same as one another. When every person acts the same there is no originality limiting overall socialization and this is what ultimately happens to lead to collapsed relationships and the inability to have friendships. Additionally, Guy and Clarisse first meet at the beginning of the novel and discuss society overall when Clarisse blatantly exclaims “People don’t talk about anything… No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.” (Bradbury 31). Further expanding on society’s difficulty with socialization in this Dystopian wasteland, even the youngest members of society such as Clarisse can realize that with