Fahrenheit 451 Technology Essay

Fahrenheit 451 is set in a time where technology takes over everyones lives. If we as a society let our technology take over our lives, we may never be free to our own imaginations again. The society of Montag’s world in Fahrenheit 451 is very uniform and everyone thinks the same way, never for themselves. Our society today is starting to show similar happenings. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, he wrote about a future dystopian society in which people have chosen to stop reading, and technology has taken over. This makes everyone completely oblivious to the fact that there is a war going on around them. Our society is beginning to head in the same direction as Montag’s because of the way we listen to voices and music through earbuds,

and our face-to-face interactions are beginning to mimic the ones you see in Montag’s world.
Technology, earbuds to and smartphones more specifically, is a huge part in our society as well as Montag’s (minus the smartphones).

We often pay too much attention to our earbuds and phones than we should. In our society, you will see tons of people with a smartphone in hand, and earbuds in ears. In Montag’s society, you see the same number of people, if not more using small “seashells” that act as our modern day earbuds. They both play music and people talk to us through both of them, whilst disconnecting us from everyone around us as we slip into our own little worlds. The fact that we have earbuds connected to smartphones that can access the entire world makes the statement that we’re losing all connection with the whole world like the people of Montag’s world untrue, but we are still losing connection with the real world environment around us. Montag’s society does not interact with much of anyone, and our society is morphing into the same stigma. We need to gain control over how we use our earbuds and smartphones so we do not end up as mindless and clueless as the people in Montag’s world, if that ever

happens.
Our face-to-face interactions over the years are not as great as they used to be, but they are not as bad as the people in Montag’s society.

More often than not, we choose to call or text someone to talk about pressing issues rather than talk to them in person. In Montag’s world however, nothing even similar happens unless you are a rebel. We like being with people, we are a social species, but when it comes to talking about problems, our society is just as bad as Montag’s. In his society, people get together to quite literally talk about nothing. Talking to people and interacting with other people is very awkward for them when rael emotions start to show, and the people in our society are slowly slipping into this state too. If we continue to go down the road of talking to someone via text or phone call rather than seeing them in person and learning from their behaviors, we are going to lose face-to-face interactions

altogether.
Although both societies are different, they are growing more similar each and every day. Our society needs to work on how we see things that may seem small to most; like constantly being on technology or choosing to meet people and talk to them online rather than in person. If we continue to not think about the consequences of these things, we will end up falling into the same trap as Montag’s society did. We as a whole have a bigger impact on the future than we realize. Just as Montag’s society chose to give up on books and education, our society could Although both societies are different, they are growing more similar each and every day. Our society needs to work on how we see things that may seem small to most; like constantly being on technology or choosing to meet people and talk to them online rather than in person. If we continue to not think about the consequences of these things, we will end up falling into the same trap as Montag’s society did. We as a whole have a bigger impact on the future than we realize. Just as Montag’s society chose to give up on books and education, our society could choose to make similar mistakes, only digging us into a hole we cannot get out of. If we continue down the path we are on, we will forever listen to the voices in our earbuds, never answering back. We will forever loose all valuable face-to-face interaction. We need to take a stand for our actions because if we refuse, our society will fall into the same trap as Montag’s. We need to pay attention to the world around us and learn our constitution and amendments. The people of Montag’s world forgot theirs’ and essentially gave their human rights away. We need to take a stand and never lose our faith in humanity, but instead lose our faith in technology.