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Technology Used In Cold Equation, By Ray Bradbury

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Most technology is used as entertainment, such as using phones for texting and social media, but there are greater technology that's for research and more scientific uses. It's used in the medical field with helping diagnosing patients and even finding their cures. Technology can be used to help solve some of the many medical mysteries that people don't have a cure for yet. Even with the fact that Technology can be used for more knowledge and great new findings, it's more commonly a way for people to be lazy. Humanity should use technology as a learning tool. Technology Is causing people to not have to go outside or do any work to have fun. It easier just to stay inside and watch television. In the short story The Pedestrian written by Ray Bradbury, he thinks that the television is going to take over our lives. Ray wrote “ and it was unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows”( Bradbury 176). …show more content…

Computers are used to functions that would take humans a long time to work out. They make work easier to accomplish. It can be used to show how much gas is used in a vehicle with different amounts of speed and weight. In the story Cold Equations written by Tom Godwin, a girl is a stowaway on a EDS. There wouldn't be enough gas to get to the destination with her added weight. A computer is used to figure out how long she could stay aboard with the gas that there was left. The pilot added the girls weight into the computer “ The memory banks of the computers would still contain all data pertaining to the course set for the EDS; such data would not be erased until the EDS reached its destination. He had only to give the computers the new data — the girl's weight and the exact time at which he had reduced the deceleration to .10.”( Godwin

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