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,

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

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