Individua Technology In Ray Bradbury's 'The Pedestrian'

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.” (Bradbury pg.104) In Fahrenheit 451 and The Pedestrian, the main characters witnessed the rarity of social interaction and how inclined people are to their screens. Author Ray Bradbury describes how it has gotten to the point where people are more in touch with technology rather than each other. Through foreshadowing and flashback, Ray Bradbury’s short story, The Pedestrian, and his novel, Fahrenheit 451, explain how society has become more ignorant in a technology-obsessed world.

In the short story “The Pedestrian” Ray Bradbury tells a story of Mr. Leonard Mead who is alone and isolated in newly innovated world of A.D. 2053. In this futuristic society Mr. Mead is no longer needed as a writer, so he then walks over uneven sidewalks for ten years capturing vivid images of the society he currently lives in which is strongly impacted by technology. Throughout the text, Ray Bradbury uses literary devices such as imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism to reveal how societies may be strongly influenced by the new advances of technology.

Technology is evolving more and more each day. If the number of people using technology is high now, what makes us think it won’t be higher later? In the short story “The Pedestrian” one person out of a population of three million walks the streets at night while everyone is inside their homes glued to technology. Leonard is arrested by a robotic police car and taken to a psychiatric center for his “regressive” tendencies. Bradbury is correct the way he talks about technology. People need to have limits to technology because too many people are addicted to it, and the numbers will keep increasing as technology gets better.

In my story ¨The Pedestrian¨ the story takes place in 2052 and is based around technology. The main character's name is Leonard and he is a very lonely character who likes to experience the real world. Leonard likes to walk at night while everyone else is inside watching tv. When he walks at night all of the streets are vacant as he describes as he has been walking for many years and thousands of miles and he had never seen anyone else in all of time he had been walking. The theme of the story ¨The Pedestrian¨ is technology taking over society.

In Ray Bradbury’s short story, “The Pedestrian, raises aware of the dangers of dependency on technology as society ceases its basic way of living. To begin with, everybody uses the effective and most reliable source – electronics but everything comes with a consequence. Due to the dependency on technology, society did not value the basic activities as they used to do from before. Quote (Bradbury 1). People use technology as the regular way of getting by.

Government in order to battle cyber wars. Skynet developed a mind of its own and started targeting the humans as a threat to existance. With the access of nuke bombs, Skynet activated every single nuke there was in order to end live on earth. But there were some human survivors who hid from the blasts, once the humans agreed on joining forces to defeat the robots, the resistance came to be a an army of many nations. John Connor grew up to be the leader and prophet of the resistance, knowing when and where to attack, the reason why he knew all of this was because of his mother Sarah Connor who left him audio tapes for him to listen to when te time came. Sarah Connor got a message from thte future giving her all of the information she now made sure John Connor ad in order for the human race to

“In a society full of technology, are we alone together?” Ray Bradbury writes in The Pedestrian. Bradbury is well-known for his work, Fahrenheit 451, about a futuristic society that has a certain love-affair with technology. Within his novel, published in 1953, he writes that the members of the society use items called “seashells” and “thimble radios”, both of which Hayley Tsukayama compares to earbuds and bluetooth headsets in her article Dreams of Ray Bradbury: Predictions that came true within the Washington Post. Bradbury illustrates these devices as a way technology has separated humans and taken away the connection they had with each other previously. Within his novel the protagonist, Guy Montag, has a certain disconnect with his wife as the book opens with her attempt at suicide, which fails because the technology in their world is so advanced it just takes a mechanic to pump someone’s stomach. In this society, attempted suicide is so common that there is no need to have nurses or doctors waste their precious time pumping another stomach when a lowly technician can do it emotionlessly and efficiently. This is another example of Bradbury’s mention of an emotional disconnect within this society all too much like our own. Although Fahrenheit 451 is science fiction, there is a certain ring of truth to it’s tolling bells that holds a horrifying future we can only hope is never an eventuality.

If something like an object or living being exists it then has a purpose for existing, but finding out this purpose seems almost impossible. The concept that people live for a purpose is strange, and if so what would this purpose be? A story called The Nine Billion Names of God, by Arthur C. Clarke offers a purpose for the human race to accomplish.

Mankind is at the brink of extinction in the year 2029. Cyborg killing machines are manufactured by skynet, an autonomous computer virus that took control of the US military arsenal to enslave and destroy all of mankind. However, the computer program meets strong resistance against the humans

In order to learn the true value of simplicity, one must reject societal normalities and construct their own principles.

Ever since the beginning of time, man has tried to make sense of the world around him. There is evidence that as early as 400BC people were asking questions like, “Who are we?” “Who created us?” and “Why are we here?” All of these questions arise when someone tries to determine what their purpose is. Defined as “the reason for which something exists or is made” (dictionary.reference.com) purpose is something that many humans never find. However, the way that a person lives is tangibly affected by what they believe their purpose is. As examples of man’s search for purpose, one can delve into such literature as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” or “Robinson Crusoe”. Directly or indirectly, both of these stories say something about the condition of man and his search for purpose. In addition, the Bible gives us real and practical answers about our creator and his design for us. By studying these three sources, one can come to a better understanding about our purpose while living on this earth.

Every human being has a purpose. They may have been born to save a life, fight for our country, or live in a box but no matter what they choose to do in life they still serve a purpose to our community, country, and world. They were born with a purpose. Purpose is defined as, “the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists” (Oxford Dictionary).

Everything in life has a purpose for their existence, and each human being is valued for

The contradiction between searching for an inherent order, reason or existential purpose toward the human experience and the inability to find any in an essentially lawless, meaningless and indifferent universe is what French author and philosopher, Albert Camus, considered “Absurd.” Camus believed that Absurdism rose from the “wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.” Any hopeful searching for concrete meanings is met with the seemingly discouraging and disheartening realization that there are no true meanings. For many of us, the idea that the world was not made for a preordained purpose, or that any individual effort made toward change, will be forgotten and meaningless in a universe that will continue to be indifferent toward our existence is a despairing notion.

Everyone has a purpose in life, great or small. The purpose may have a positive or negative result, based on the way the purpose is perceived. Some purposes of a person are obvious to be seen by others, but not that person. According to dictionary.com, the definition of purpose is “the reason for which something exists.” As Pablo Picasso once stated “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” This quote means that one does not accomplish anything when he/she finds their gift. They accomplish something when they are able to use their gift and apply it to others. So many people wonder why they are here. What purpose do they serve on this planet? What are they here to accomplish for the good of the world? Many are not able to figure out their purpose until they end up applying their gift to others. The purpose of one can extremely differ from another. I have learned that some purposes are found through the tragic assassination of a United States president, the inspiring leadership of a civil rights movement, the horrific slaughter of millions across Europe, and the stunning vocals of a twelve year old talent show winner.