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Wall-E: An Ugly Toll Of Technology

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The True Environment of Technology In todays world the environment has changed, both the physical environment where people live and the environment where people learn. Technology causes people to forget about life outside themselves and confines them to passive activities indoors. This theme comes up in the movie WALL-E when the human race is forced to space because of pollution. In Fahrenheit 451, people spend their days in “parlor rooms” with television screens on all four walls. In this new society, books have been banned and people have stopped thinking. Author, Mary Ann Sala talks about this in her article “America has become too dependent on technology” detailing how the American people can’t live without the internet. Also, Tara Parker-Pope wrote an article entitled “An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness” detailing how technology changes the brain. Today, people’s screens control their lives and they don’t even think about what is going on in the world around them. This is change the world we live in making …show more content…

A flower in real life pales in comparison to the millions of flowers that can be seen with the touch of a button. With the instant gratification of technology, it has made us forget that it took millions of years for the earth to form into what it is today. In WALL-E,the human race is forced from earth because it has become so polluted (WALL-E). In the movie, people stop caring for the earth and ignore it. If people keep clicking away on their phones they will lose sight of taking care of earth and this could become a reality for everyone. In both the movie and in Fahrenheit 451, people neglect taking care of the earth. However, Clarisse wakes Montag up to the beauty of a simple flower. She shows him that nature is more beautiful than any technology. She is walking in the grass on a rainy day when she discovers a flower, one of the last of the year. She tells him

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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses Clarisse’s connection to nature and Mildred's and her friends connection to technology to teach the reader the importance of being connected to nature and how technology is destructive and encourages emotional disengagement. Ray Bradbury uses the character Clarisse and her connection to nature to show that nature is very calming and can lead to happiness. Late one night when Montag was coming home from work, he turned the corner and almost ran into Clarisse. Montag and Clarisse began to talk to each other and then,” They walked in the warm-cool blowing night on the silvered pavement and there was the faintest breath of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air” (Bradbury 10).

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They were allowed out of their comfort zone to learn more about their craft and become more innovative because of technology. Access to the Internet provides the chance to become more skillful without fully concentrating on finding specific information in long readings. The dispute over whether technology has assisted humanity is still heavily debated. Carr believes that because of how we use the Internet, we “power browse” to “avoid reading in the traditional sense” resulting in the loss of deep thinking (Carr 3). He expresses that for this reason, technology is destroying society’s “capacity for concentration and contemplation” (Carr 2).

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Carr could have not said it any better, “what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away at my capacity for concentration and contemplation.” It has immobilized my ability to think on my own and read in-depth. Once again, technology has wiggled its way back into my life. Since reading this article, I have caught myself becoming dependent on the Internet. If I ever have questions,I automatically take out one of my devices and look up the question.

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(AGG) Think, take a good look around at your society, if you don't you might seriously regret it. (BS-1) Technology is a huge distractions and a big problem in both societies and with new advances coming out every minute, there is no stopping the distractions from taking over society. (BS-2) Fahrenheit 451 and our society are depressed and unhappy because of these distractions, so they take their lives.

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" Is Google Making Us Stupid" By Nicholas Carr refers to the ways technology is negatively affecting our brain function. Carr starts his argument talking about how the internet is a resource we can use for almost anything. As a result, we are becoming more and more dependent on it for simple everyday tasks. Carr states that technology is a distraction and just a "shortcut". According to the article, technology is becoming more important than people.

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Technology is advancing very rapidly, but is it hurting or harming us? In the article, “ Is Google Making Us Stupid”, by Nicholas Carr, he examines how the internet has altered people’s mental abilities. Malcolm Gladwell writes an article called, “ Small Change”, in which he draws attention to how the internet has changed the engagement of social activism. Carr’s argument that the internet alters a person's mental abilities, changes their thought process, and destroys their concentration complicates Gladwell’s point that the internet loses the meaning of social activism, changes how activist are defined, and it takes over activism on a social level, because the arguments presented are similar but the outcomes of the internet vary between the

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In today’s society, technology plays a very important role in its ability to function, it helps people find information, communicate with others far away and provides entertainment. In “Fahrenheit 451”, a book written by Ray Bradbury, a dystopian future where books have been made illegal is presented. In the article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, raises many questions about technology and its effects on society. It’s quite evident that we have become quite dependent on technology due to our overconsumption of it.

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While technology can help save lives and provide entertainment, society should spend less time on technology because it can render society with no free thought, it prevents social interaction, and it ruins relationships all of which rather than the use of books as predicted in the novel by Bradbury. Bradbury feared and tried to warn society about a world in which more and more insistence is brought upon further developing technology, turning our society into a mundane dystopia. Building upon this, an article published by Jon Johnson further expands upon the negative effects of new technology in the article: Negative effects of technology: What to know he discusses: “A 2017 study in young adults aged 19–32 years found that people with higher social media

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Our way of thinking is beginning to change to the way that computers do. Advancements are made everyday. These new advancements are attempting to make life in general easier for everyone. Nicholas Carr makes the claim that, “as the internet because our primary source of the information it is affecting our ability to read books and other long narratives.” Carr suggests that using the internet is altering the way that our minds operate.

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However, Carr aims to solely inform society of the effects on this shift on our attention span, ability to communicate, and thinking process though the utilization of logos, ethos, and pathos. Often times technology is glorified, but it cannot substitute for reading or writing and the skills it inhibits. Moreover, it is scary to imagine how technology will shape

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They imply that life would be hard to live with the lack of new technologies, however, it becomes ironic because life is already at risk due to technology. Making technological advances and preserving the environment and human health will not be possible because of the pollution resulting of the waste output, the depletion of natural resources and the global warming resulting of the emission of carbon dioxide. To begin with, the waste output of the new technologies pollutes the lands, the water and the air of the earth. An average computer screen contains up to 8 pounds of lead and 2 to 5 percent of the trash in American landfills belong to electronics waste.

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