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Technology In Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man

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Science fiction is a genre that is futuristic and deals with technology. It often involves space or time travel. In Ray Bradbury’s “The Illustrated Man”, each story gives an example of how technology is being used in the future. However, in each story things go wrong. The overall theme is man versus technology. In each case technology that was supposed to help humans ends up hurting them. In “the veldt”, technology was used to help occupy children. The parents had installed a virtual reality nursery the children interacted with. When a child psychologist suggests the parents turn off the “nursery” and take a real vacation the kids don’t like it. They trap the nursery and let the virtual lions eat them. This was unfortunate for the parents
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