Albert Einstein once said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Albert Einstein was worried that the future world would misuse technology to the point where there is no human connections; this is exactly what happened in Ray Bradbury’s story The Pedestrian. In The Pedestrian, Mr. Mead has walked every night for years, but no one ever walks anymore. Technology is a big part of this generation’s life, which isn’t always the best. Thus, the role of technology today could lead to the misuse of technology and then eventually to the lack of human connections.

Technology can be used for the better but we can also misuse the technology. For instance, while Mr. Mead was walking he got stopped by a robot cop car. Mr. Mead stated, “as he passed the front window of the car, he looked in. As he expected there was no one in the front seat, no one in the car at all” (176). With having an automatic cop car is misusing technology because they are sending robots out to do their work instead of doing it themselves. Another example, when Mr. Mead said that he was a writer the cap car said no profession. Then Mr. Mead told us, “magazines and books didn’t sell anymore” (175). Books and magazines didn’t sell anymore because the people are are to involved in …show more content…
In a world that revolves around technology there is always that chance of misusing it. Then eventually human interactions will begin to wither and fall apart. “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Albert Einstein said those words in the 1990s; he was concerned about technology getting the best of us. Hopefully his concern then becomes yours now, because it still a threat that one day we will use technology to the point where humanity is wrecked and there is no