Technology In Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'

Fahrenheit 451 Final Essay With people hardly even reading books anymore and everyone distracted on their phones it has torn apart human connection with one another. In Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury, he does an outstanding way of predicting exactly how technology can and will eventually destroy human connections with one another which we are already starting to see today, but there are some points in which technology can better the world. During the reading of Fahrenheit 451 what really stood out was how disconnected Mildred and her friends were from the real world because of technology. Montag also creates some great solutions which would help everyone start to reconnect again if they are followed through. However,

Technology has helped plenty of times with spreading news in the real world, which keeps humans' safe plenty of times, for example in Fahrenheit 451 when they were in the search for Montag right after he had escaped, the police were looking everywhere for him. The government knew that everyone was on at least one piece of technology, so he sent out a message through the devices used to communicate, it states, “The Seashell hummed in his ear. “. . . watch for a man running . . . watch for the running man . . . watch for a man alone, on foot . . . watch . . .” (Bradbury 118) Once that was heard there were people looking outside to stop Montag, a so-called “Criminal” in the

Most people barely talk to each other in person or are distracted by devices. In Fahrenheit 451 the readers see plenty of examples in which people do not notice a single thing going on around them. For instance, when Montag just got told by Captain Beatty that he can keep and read the book for 48 hours (2 days). Montag starts heading to Faber's house by taking the train which would leave him exposed to everyone Bradbury comments, “Now as the vacuum-underground rushed him through the dead cellars of town, jolting him, he remembered the terrible logic of that sieve, and he looked down and saw that he was carrying the bible open” (Bradbury