Fahrenheit 451 And Technology Essay

Technologies negative effect on human life Everyday people are surrounded by technology, and it is useful in many ways, but the problems that arise from it cause harm to people socially, physically, and mentally as shown in the movie Wall-E and the book Fahrenheit 451. In the movie, Wall-E the director show the viewer how people are so absorbed in technology that they miss out on everything going on around them. Ray Bradbury the author of Fahrenheit 451 shows the reader how people lose all communications skills and decision making skills due to technology through his story Fahrenheit 451. Each story depicts the future when people rely on technology, but the stories show different aspects of what people will become like. In both Wall-E and Fahrenheit 451 the authors show the reader how people lose the ability to communicate with each other, as well as not being able to see what is going on around them. In the movie, Wall-E the director portrays humans sitting in a hover chair with a screen always in front of them taking the humans completely out of direct contacts with each other. They show people talking to each other through a screen when they sitting side by side. The
In Wall-E people become reliant on their hover chairs because they use them so much they can’t walk anymore. Even though in life we have not lost the ability to walk we still rely on technology like the characters in Wall-E do with their hover chairs. We have become reliant on cars to get us places. Technology still effects people in cars as well. As people are driving they often have a phone out. This is a huge negative side effect of technology. In 2014 in the United States of America “3179 lives lost because of distracted driving” (Webb). All the distraction came from cell phone use. Technology like cars are useful in so many ways but it can also end up causing thousands of deaths each