Technology Used In Cold Equation, By Ray Bradbury

It’s evident that humanity has achieved seemingly impossible feats through technology and inventions; yet, it’s equally clear that technology can be a mindless distraction from unavoidable life issues that individuals try to escape. Though technology was intended for good, something people can benefit from, it’s become a quick escape for people so that they may easily sit and drool before a colored screen instead of applying themselves to something meaningful. Television and social media has hindered humanity because of its uselessness. It is an unnecessary addition to people’s daily routine that ultimately allows people to pretend to be involved in society, but in reality it creates a means to evade responsibility and endeavors.

This same message is also conveyed in the short story “Pedestrian” written by Ray Bradbury, Lenard Mead was outside taking a walk by himself, he was the only one on the streets because everyone else was in there houses, He would look in the windows and talk to the windows and whisper, "’What's up tonight on Channel 4, Channel 7, Channel 9? Where are the cowboys rushing, and do I see the United States Cavalry over the next hill to the rescue?’" (Bradbury 1). Lenard was the only one in society that was not always on the TV like the rest of the people in society.

 Authors Maggie Nelson and Sherry Turkle would agree that technology alters one’s perception of life negatively and positively. In “Great to Watch,” Nelson explores the effect different channels of media have on the general

A prime example of how citizens appear to direct all their attention to the meaningless pleasures of life instead the disconcerting truths of the society they are living in. Citizens, too terrified to face their pent-up conflicts and struggles, have yet to realize that their avoidance of these feelings is the root cause of their despair. Although one might say“ignorance is bliss,” Bradbury makes it clear that such a method of achieving happiness, through the fleeting sensation of television, is simply pointless. This desperate plea to the future of humanity, Bradbury’s vision of such a corrupt society puts forth an array of invaluable takeaways.

In the world of this novel, technology control has gotten so severe that citizens are found becoming unhealthily close to TV shows, and greatly affecting their demeanor and attention to

Similarly, the residents of the world The Pedestrian is set in, are glued to their television sets. In, The Pedestrian, TV is something everyone watches and does at the same time, it is the only acceptable thing to do. We even see a police officer confused when someone is walking the streets instead of consuming televised media. " And there is air in your house,

Some people think it is helpful for us to use technology because it offers us a lot of conveniences and helps us to achieve more. While others may think it as a negative thing to do because it makes people become lazier and lose many abilities. There are numerous articles debating on this topic, such as “No Need To Call” by Sherry Turkle,“Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, “Better Than Human” by Kevin Kelly, and “The Influencing Machines” by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Newfield. All four articles offer different point of views on the strengths and

The Overuse of Television Kameron G Loyd BYU-Idaho  During an average week, how much television does the average child watch? Parents, educators, and concerned citizens alike would be appalled at the answer of 1,480 minutes (BLS American Time Use Survey, A.C. Nielsen Co.). They would also be revolted by the statistic that 54% of four to six year olds would rather spend time watching television instead of spending time with their fathers (BLS American Time Use Survey, A.C. Nielsen Co.). In 1984, Neil Postman saw how devastating television watching was becoming to the culture of America, and gave a speech to the literary community at the 1984 Frankfort Germany Book Fair entitled “Amusing Ourselves to Death” which deals directly with this monolithic issue. Although the speech and subsequent article, published in Et Cetra, were directed at the publishers, writers, illustrators, etc., all those who read this article can also benefit from Postman’s overarching desire to decrease the hours of mind-numbing television watching.

To start with, in the short story The Pedestrian, Bradbury positions the time in 2053, were because of technology, crime has stopped and they only left one cop car on duty to patrol an entire city of three million.. Technology is so overused that it makes people seem like “grey phantoms” from the outrageous amounts of time they spend on it (Bradbury). Their life depends on their viewing screens and over time makes them go crazy in a weird way. Rather than going outside hanging out with friends and forming new relationships they become alienated from the rest of the word. Similarly, Ray Bradbury’s short story The Veldt conveys how technology builds negativity in oneself.

n Barbara Ehrenreich’s The Worst Years of Our Lives, she highlights a significant infection festering in American Culture: television as a main event, or only event in a day. As she says “you never see people watching tv”, and that happens because it truly isn’t entertaining. It substitutes for a life. The television has been pulling people into an allusion of a false reality and a seemingly boring life since its implementation. She essentially illustrates the negative impact television has on todays society.

In the past few years humans have spent much more time indoors with their technology than outdoors. Televisions, computers, and smartphones tend to draw greater numbers of people inside their homes, just as humans did in the futuristic world of Leonard Mead where no one left their homes at night. (“The Pedestrian”). Children especially have been infected with the media bug, much like Peter and Wendy, who are unable to stray away from their virtual reality in “The Veldt”. It is understandable that many-particularly older- people believe that technology is affecting how human naturally interact with each other and their surroundings.

(Bradbury 58). People are being fed seemingly random bits of information that won’t help them in the real world. They learn nothing from school, and come home and learn nothing as they stare at their parlor screens. TVs are just crammed with show after shows of loud noises, bright lights, and pretty colors. No real questions are thrown at society members.

Also, technology helps and brings people more like a community. Above all, peoples’ extent of well-being will not be satisfied at the peak without the involvement of technology. For instance, people are individual units. Today, lots of things like “Fox mail,” “e-business,” “iCloud,” are used personally on the internet.

However, does all this new technology really benefit us? Will we allow technology to overtake our world? We can already see the ramifications of so much technology. Adults and children have become stagnate which is affecting their health. On the other hand we can also see all the good technology can do.

The human race has got to see some of the top best inventions during the 20th century, for example- the radio, the airplane, nuclear power, automobile, and the one that has by far made human life easy and efficient is the computer. The invention of the computer has led to some of the most significant concepts, ideas, and inventions that eventually led to the evolution of human life. And the major ones are, the internet, long distance communication, easy and safe research and much more! The computer was invented by Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer, and polymath who is also titled as the “father of computers”.