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Technology In Fahrenheit 451, By Ray Bradbury

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The novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury serves as a warning to today's generation and those of the future. In the novel, the dystopian world is becoming a technological wasteland where society is more focused on watching short clips in the parlor or playing sports than learning or exploring the world. Parents ignore their children and kids are busy killing each other. Though the book was written in 1953, it is a perfect parallel to what the world is slowly becoming: an artificial intelligence (AI) dominated society. Ray Bradbury's writing serves as a warning to those who rely on technology that this behavior can lead to social isolation, reliance on shortcuts, and the unwitting adoption of censorship. The overuse of technology is a major …show more content…

They are human tools used to enforce censorship and conformity. Technology has caused laziness and self isolation, but people are allowing themselves to live this way without question or dissent. They no longer ask questions, think creatively, or even spend time with each other. Books are seen as contraband and it is never stated directly in the book why this is the case, but it is believed that the books can cause people to think for themselves which scares the government. This is exemplified when Montag first met Clarisse and asked her about school, but was shocked to find out that “[they] never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher” (Bradbury 27). Both children and adults alike are being led down this rabbit hole of government-issued information. In school, kids have no time to think because they are constantly playing mindless sports or attending TV classes where answers are given and questions prohibited. Clarisse tells Montag how they have “An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports” (Bradbury 27). Even children are being subjected to this process of indoctrination. This is similar to the scene in Wall-e, where no passenger on the ship or even the captain has ever asked where they are going or why they are going there. When Eva returns the plant to the captain, the autopilot tries to steal it so that they won’t have to go back to Earth. It is an operation that not even the captain knows about. The robots and droids on the ship were meant to keep everyone busy so that the passengers would be shielded from the real point of the space adventure - avoiding hard work. The people were so lazy that someone decided to start a

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