Compare And Contrast Long Way Home And The Pedestrian By Charles G. Waugh

“...he was alone in this world of A.D. 2053, or as good as alone…” The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury is a short story that focuses on the idea of how lonely it can be in a world of technology. Starting the story with Leonard Mead, the pedestrian, walking around the neighborhood and talking to the houses as if they were people not talking to the ghosts within the windows. During mid walk he ran into some trouble with the police leading him into being arrested for walking without a valid purpose. The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury portrays this idea of how lonely it can be in a world of technology by using metaphors, dialogue and symbolism.

Everyday technology is advancing and has become part of people’s everyday life, from phones, cars, computers, and even the light switches in a room. With all this technology, it would be easy to use it for other things then what they were intended for. For example what if someone wanted to control what another person could do such as sleeping or going places. It would not not be that hard to try and control another human being, or even worse being watched every single moment of everyday for the rest of their life. That idea is not as farfetched as it may seem now with even more phones, computers, televisions and cameras in general. Technology is taking humanity nearer and nearer to world of Big Brother and the worse part is that if they are not careful, Big Brother could raise without any citizen ever knowing.

“All kinds of creative possibilities are made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man, if man is not enslaved by it” as quoted by Jonas Salk during a speech about the technological advances in modern medicine in the 1950s. In the short stories by Ray Bradbury, he illustrates how the characters are struggling to live with the futuristic capabilities of technology. “The Pedestrian” focuses on a man named Leonard Mead who is the only person in society who does not use the technology in his home, his hobby is to walk. However, he is viewed as an outcast. “The Veldt” focuses on how George and Lydia Hadley figure out how their children’s nursery is powered by their mind and how they use it to have a tragic advantage over their parents in the end. While technology can let people connect to others much more efficiently, Ray Bradbury shows how the characters in his short stories “The Pedestrian” and “The Veldt” prove how technology is capable of isolating people from reality.

Technology has become more accessible to the point it has become easier for government to watch everyone's move. In this generation technology takes over everyone's daily life, where people wakes up and the first thing is look at is the phone. A phone there are many things on it, like text, pictures and videos. Phones can do many things, but there is a possibility where the government can tap into a phone and look through it. The government can watch everyone’s: text, history, private info, and pictures. Government has no right to looking through people’s personal info because it violates Fourth amendment, Blackmail, and Creates fear.

Many people in the past and today believe the future will hold advancements in how humans live and what they use. The most common advancement is technology. Technology is the future, from the simplicity of turning on a light, to an advance development of a robot. The future is commonly told through sci-fi movies and through non fictional books such as the stories “The Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury or “The Nethergrave” by Glaria Skurzynski. The story Nethergrave is better than The Sound of Thunder because it’s more entertaining, shows better imagery, and it’s ultimately easier to understand.

Authors of futuristic stories like to hypothesize what the future will be like. Some portray times of darkness and gloom, while others prefer to show the positive side of improving technology. In "The Pedestrian", Ray Bradbury presents a future where life is constantly monitored and removed from individualism and creativity. Contrary to "The Pedestrian", "Long Way Home" by Charles Waugh showcases how the future can be positively affected through the improvement of modern technology. I believe that "Long Way Home" describes a more realistic outcome of the future.

Technology is in everything we do from using our home refrigerator, washer, cell phone, car, and computers. When using certain devices you could potentially pass information out to others pertaining to your personal private information. This information could be bank account and credit card numbers, pins, and or passwords. We unconsciously don’t even realize that we could be sharing this information. We give out information that is randomly requested when we walk into a dentist office or doctor’s office, the local liquor store, or when we are using social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, and Google. This is all collected, stored, and tracked by the NSA, and what is our government is doing with it is unknown. In today’s world NSA

This editorial is intended to open the eyes of older and middle-aged Americans who are involved in the technology community that we live, but don't understand the hidden repercussions that permeate through their phone, computer, and laptop use. Not many people understand how the government's abilities affect their daily lives, and some are even completely ignorant to their privacy actions. I intend to inform them about the dangers of releasing personal information into the open, as it is not only harmful for yourself, but to others around them.The audience will then learn that the government is always listening to our every text, call, email, search, and keystroke and adding every day people into a bank of information.

Today we are watched by our government through our technology. Such as, smartphones and laptops. For example, “We are able to see what 100,000,000 people are doing,...”(DesMarais,2012). This reveals how the book “1984” and present day have similar schemes.

Technology is taking over the world as we know it. Orwell predicted that technology would take control of citizen’s lives and make them have no privacy, and honestly that is not so far off. Governments can access these devices and look at what people learning, looking at, and who they are talking to. There is not much that a citizen can hide from their government. Citizens do not have as much privacy as they did even just twenty years ago. With technological advances, the world could follow the story of George Orwell’s 1984. Video surveillance is something that the government uses also, although it is not as harsh as in George Orwell’s story, but still citizen’s privacies are being invaded. According to Alex Abdo, there is a United States owned database filled with every Americans information and every one of his or her associations (Abdo). Even the United States, which is considered a country built upon freedom, is monitoring its people. The American government even tries to follow everything that its citizens do. Governments even have 64 federal websites that are helping them follow their people’s browsing and buying habits (Zuckerbrod). Governments are using their websites to monitor what people are doing. This way the government can know everything from their people’s hobbies to who their best friend is. Technology is helping the government take away their citizens privacy.

Our everyday electronic device lives with us, follows us, knows us, controls us. Ever heard of, “I can not live without wifi?” Many people today are so attached to their electronic devices and it is an everyday use. Little do they know, they are always being watched. Our technology advancement is getting close to what Orwell predicted. Our technology is parallel to what Orwell visioned because we have GPS, telescreens, cameras, drones, microphones that track our everyday actions and we let technology control our daily lives.

In the modern era, most everybody all over the United States has a phone, computer or at least heard of them and what they do. These intimate technologies have become an inseparable part of life because they are vital to nearly every aspect of life, especially in developed countries. This dependence, however, makes everyone vulnerable to surveillance by governments. Governments have unrestricted access to how we use our phones and computers; they can track our calls and assess its content including our texts. This uncontrolled invasion of people’s privacy could lead to a dystopian society much like the one portrayed in George Orwell’s 1984.

Technology is all around us. Almost every person in the country owns some form of technology. Whether it’s a television, a computer, a laptop, or a smartphone most Americans own at least one of them. People use their phones for business and personal uses. There is so much information is on your phone. You may think that, that information on your phone is safe, but you are wrong.

    How would you feel if every move you make, every word you say, every number you dial on the telephone, could easily be accessed or monitored by just about anyone in the world? Well, chances are that you and me and many others are currently, or have been, victims of this infringement on privacy. With today's ever growing technology, there is little one can do to ensure privacy in normal, every day life. Even though many benefits have come with this increased technology, the inherent loss of privacy scares many. In most cases, the use of such technology is taken too far, and if continued use of these technologies is to be permitted, then the law has some serious

Discussions were formed about how much personal privacy people were willing to give for the promise of safety from terrorists. However, surveillance devices such as high quality cameras and mobile devices are also available to the public and can be easily ordered from retailers – this could potentially make everyone part of the security system. According to sociologist David Lyon, new surveillance systems have become a major social institution that affects social relationships, people’s identities, personal space, freedom, and dignity. Data images are considered as the “looking glass” that provides social judgements about “who we are”. Finally, despite of increasing identity theft, spying, selling of personal information, and other technological invasion many people see the benefits of surveillance outweighing the risks. Although it is unequally distributed, new surveillance, in fact, both have its positive and negative