Technology In Fahrenheit 451

Montag resides in a very advanced technological world whereas in our society, we live in a technological world that is not as advanced. When Montag asks Mildred what’s playing on the TV, she describes a show that’s about to play where the person watching the TV also becomes a character. She is given a script and throughout the show, the characters will involve her in conversations and she has to read what’s on her script, “‘It’s really fun. It’ll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth wall-TV put in? It’s only two thousand dollars.’ ‘That’s one-third of my yearly pay,’ ‘It’s only two thousand dollars,’ she replied,” (18). In this conversation, Mildred wants to get a fourth wall TV put in but Montag says no because it costs too much.

Their technology has become so advanced that they will spend hours and hours in their ‘parlor’ surrounded by four wall-sized TVs. Mildred also mentions that the script was a new idea that was being tested and that means that their society is still advancing in technology. In a conversation between Montag and Clarisse, Clarisse starts talking about drivers and the advancement of technology, “‘I sometimes think drivers don’t know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly,’ she said, ‘If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he’d say, that’s grass! A pink blur? That’s a rose