Technology In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury had thoughts on technology ruining relationships and society acknowledging technology more than knowledge. The society in the book prefer everything to be simple, and entertaining just as the parlour walls. He also predicted the future of technology in 1953 when he wrote the book. This is relevant to today because the internet is on a very high level in our society, just as parlour walls were in the society of Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury believed that technology would drive relationships apart, just as Mildred and Montag did. “"Nobody listens any more. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls.” (Bradbury 78) This indicates that even though they are physically together, they have no time to bond and develop in their relationship due to Mildred spending all of her time watching her shows. When Montag asks Mildred to turn the walls off, she answers “That's my family." (Bradbury 46) Fake TV soap opera families have replaced real family life and society is crumbling under the weight of technology it claims makes them happy.

“ But our way is simpler and, we think, better. All we want to do is keep the knowledge we think we will need, intact and safe. We're not out to incite or anger anyone yet. For if we are destroyed, the knowledge is dead, perhaps for good.” (Bradbury 145) People have become ignorant to books and are brainwashed by the radios and tvs that they watch and hear everyday. "Books aren't people. You read and I look around, but there isn't anybody!.. my `family' is people. They tell me things; I laugh, they laugh! And the colours!" (Bradbury 69) Books have been reduced to degraded versions of the originals to tv shows, so people can have a simplified version of the real