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Ray Bradbury’s warning American society in his book, Fahrenheit 451 still exists today and is more relevant to our current habits. Fahrenheit 451 is a book set in the future and acts as a warning to people of the 1950s. This book could potentially be a warning to current American Society because we are using technology more and are becoming attached to it.
In the book, the parlor, a virtual reality television, is considered as ‘family.’ “‘Will you turn the parlor off?’ He asked. ‘That’s my family.’ ‘Will you turn it off for a sick man?’ ‘I’ll turn it down.’ She went out of the room and did nothing to the parlor and came back. ‘Is that better?’” (48-49). This quote shows that Mildred thinks of the parlor as ‘family’ and is reluctant …show more content…
In Is Google Making us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr, Carr states that the use of technology and the internet has made it harder for him to read. “Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle” (Nicholas Carr). This quote shows that too much use of technology makes it harder to read. In Fahrenheit 451, people don’t read and instead spend time in the parlor and that may relate to what Nicholas Carr is explaining in his article. Some people say that technology is useful and helps us in our everyday life in communication, scheduling, weather forecast, and other things. They also say that technology helps us learn faster. But they are wrong because while technology can be helpful in many ways, it also can be destructive and make people upset. Addiction is something that occurs often while using technology. It is easy to get hooked on something fun and that could be a problem because you might neglect everything else. Technology can also be a way for people to send harmful and mean things to you and that can sometimes