Fahrenheit 451 Essay On Technology

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People nowadays live on their phone screens with headphones in their ears.People pay more attention to their phones than people themselves.Technology has taken over our lives and has removed the importance of spending time with family and friends.Instead of living with family, we live with technology.Ray Bradbury who wrote Fahrenheit 451 describes it without directly referring to it, he introduces the ideas that people always have headphones in their ears, tv walls, and burning books.which doesn't directly refer to technology being bad, but says it in a symbolic way.Bradbury's depiction and perspective on technology is an accurate depiction of technology and how it influences people’s lives. For example, Bradbury's describes in Fahrenheit 451 It can be argued though that Not all technology is bad, Medical, and educational technology is beneficial and can be ne.cessary for today's living.Technology for medical purposes is vital for treating the injured or the sick, like when Mildred overdosed on pills if weren't for the machine that "pumped new blood into her cleaned her system, she'd be dead if it weren't for the technology.Another example of technology would be for education, the technology that's used for education is important and can be argued that it's necessary for teaching these days.Without it, teaching would be more difficult than it is today. Although Though technology can be good, it can be worse than good, such as people always with their faces on their phones and headphones in their ears, people neglecting books and using more online text, and people wasting their lives watching TV.Children now know how to use a phone faster than they can

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