Use Of Technology In Allende's And Of Clay We Are Created

In Allende's "And of Clay We Are Created" technology cover the lion's share, alas in a predominantly negative connotation not per se, but for the use or non-use we make of it. The story tells of a natural disaster foretold by geologists who "had set up their seismographs weeks before," and "predicted that the heat of the eruption could detach the eternal ice from the slopes of the volcano, but no one heeded their warnings" (1736). Allende blatantly criticizes the government for not responding appropriately, and thus not making proper use of technology by causing the death of thousands of unsuspecting victims.
"The odor of death was already attracting" the media, which pounced on the catastrophe like "vultures" documenting "the weeping of orphans and wails of the injured filled the air, the little girl obstinately clinging to life became the symbol of the tragedy" (1735).
Thus, comparing the media to vultures waiting for the death of their prey, Allende questions the use and value of human technology and the sense of detachment and apathy that lead camera operators and reporters to witness without lifting a finger to save Azucena from a preventable death.
The concept is also reinforced as the author

Rolf was one of the first reporters to arrive on the scene, and at the sight of Azucena had abandoned his role of the passive observer in the vain attempt to save the girl. Certainly, the author wants to emphasize how the camera creates an emotional distance, which also becomes physical, in the observer who tries not to get involved with the drama of the situation; a distance that becomes almost unbridgeable in those who assist helplessly in front of the screen, as shown by the words of the