Technology In Fahrenheit 451

Every day of our lives we are surrounded and spend countless hours under the grip that technology seems to have on the world today. Fahrenheit 451 is about a future society where books are forbidden. They were banned because they believed that books made people think differently causing many fights throughout the town. Society did not like that and thought that if you did not have to form opinions then there would be less conflict and overall society would be happier. They burned the houses where books where found and the owner of the house was send to an insane asylum. Throughout the book there are lots of technology inventions including TVs parlor walls and cars that go 200 mph. Although there is a lot of technology that has improved the

Fahrenheit 451 presents a society where technology, including media has created a virtual world that disconnects them from reality, they live in. Montag’s boss chief Beatty states that without books everyone is happy, but it seems to show how after books everyone becomes upset and turns to any resource that would supply happiness. This was technology, where it created an environment where society did not have to think. Over time thinking about anything was uncommon and society was submerged in this false reality. Mildred the wife of Montag was the average technology addicted human, after spending all day watching her three TVs on the parlor walls. Mildred started calling her TVs to her family. “She shoved the walise in the waiting beetle, climbed in and sat

Beatty explained to Montag about what schools used to be like, no one seemed to know. He claims, "School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?" (Bradbury 53). You can imagine what this school may be like. There are no books and nothing to teach besides expressing the thought that technology is good and the only way to be happy. Today there are books that must be taught but suddenly are becoming banned. Books are read in school to prepare students for the outside world, and to express their imagination. Phones have caused a wall of distraction throughout schools; students are always on their phones during class and try to do their work on their phones. According to the book The Distracted Mind it says that “Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World, students become distracted when they are pursuing a goal that really matters and something blocks their efforts to achieve