Technology In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master,” said Christian Lous Lange. Technology has its perks, but overall, it is impacting our society for the worse. Technology is constantly becoming more advanced, and with this, it is becoming more addicting. Technology can be helpful in many situations, but if you let technology consume you, you will be lost without it. Technology can also impact our mental health in a negative way. Advancements in technology are hurting our society because it has gotten to the point where technology is taking over and controlling our daily lives. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, technology is, for the most part, displayed in a negative way. One of the science fiction aspects of the story is the “families”,

All of the technology is working just as it is programmed to, even though a nuclear bomb had eliminated everything around it, including the people that lived there. The house still read the date in the morning, cooked breakfast, filled bath tubs and set up decks of playing cards, even though there were no people there. What this shows us is that technology is only as smart as the people who programmed it. The house had no idea there were no people in it because it was not programmed to realize that. When the house began to burn down, it did not know how to do anything to prevent total destruction. The house attempted to put out the fire with water sprayers, but that was the only thing it knew how to do. In the story, Bradbury writes, “While scurrying rats squeaked from the walls, pistoled their water, and ran for more. And the wall sprays let down showers of mechanical rain. But too late” (Feldman 264). The point is, technology is not fail proof. Technology is not something that should be trusted to do everything in our daily lives. Advancements in technology are hurting our society because we are putting too much trust in the capabilities of

Technology has a negative effect on mental health to the point where it can become a serious issue in the long run. Did you know that the repeated use of bright screens over the course of five nights can delay your body’s clock by approximately one and a half hours (Johnson)? The fact that technology can be addicting does not help this matter. Technology is more detrimental to our society than helpful, and over a long period of time, it is going to do more damage than