We Don T Want To Change The Future In Bradbury

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In Bradbury's short stories, he uses his idea of the future to inform the reader on how technology could be a bad thing. He goes into great detail on how technology can be flawed, how it can negatively affect us, and how it may be advancing too far one way and not enough in the other. With that being said, what does he think the future will be like? Well, to answer answer that question, lets take a few examples from his work. Bradbury and his idea for the future is usually grim and dark, and isn't traditionally quite as bright as we'd expect it to be. In one of his story's, he shows us how technology may advance too far in one way, and not enough in the other; the way that matters. Can you think of how crazy it would be if you had a house that could start fires, …show more content…

If so, why should we even have the power to go into the past anyway? Doesn't that sound a little redundant and contradictory? "We don't want to change the Future. We don't belong here in the Past" (A Sound of Thunder), If that's true, why go into the past at all? Especially if you're that worried on changing the future. They've stated countless times how stepping on something as simple as a blade of grass could completely ruin the future they were once in. Bradbury also shows us how technology can negatively affect society. What once was the norm, is now bizarre and out of place. Just think, in the future our kids would probably relate more to technology than they will to their own parents. We practically spoil our kids nowadays anyway, and this issue will only be ten times worse in the future. "How many times in the last year had he opened this door and found Wonderland, Alice, the Mock Turtle, or Aladdin and his Magical Lamp" (The Veldt). That's not all, as the kids later on in the story are revealed to have "a tendency toward a slight paranoia" and "they feel persecuted by their parents constantly" (The