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Inside The Home Of The Future Analysis

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Technology: Beneficial or Harmful Is technology a tool or is it an evil and useless thing that shouldn’t be depended on. Some people think technology is a step in the right direction and should be developed and continued, while others think it could be something that will take over and will not help the well-being of humans. While carefully reading the two works, “Inside the home of the Future” by Kelly Greene and “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury, you can distinct the two opposing views that Bradbury and Greene possess on the topic. Kelly Greene, the author of “Inside the Home of the Future,” takes a more positive side of the question than Bradbury, thinking that technology is a tool that will make life easier. Greene adds positive …show more content…

Excerpts like, “Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked, memory tapes glided under electric eyes” (Bradbury 326) and “Their pink electric eyes faded” (Bradbury 328) almost hints at the fact that these “eyes” may be watching all of the time, which adds a sense of creepiness to the story. There are also many different pieces of texts that represent technology in a bad way. The snippets, “Out of warrens in the wall, tiny robot mice darted” (Bradbury 328), “Behind it whirred angry mice, angry at having to pick up mud, angry at inconvenience” (Bradbury 328), “The offending dust, hair, or paper, seized in miniature steel jaws, was raced back to the burrows” (Bradbury 328), and “There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil Baal in a dark corner” (Bradbury 328) are all evidence of Bradbury’s negative point of view of technology in this story. Bradbury uses words like “whirred angry mice,” “steel jaws,” and “evil Baal,” which are all negative words, Bradbury describes the robots that clean as mice, and of course, most people don’t want mice in their homes, crawling around after you. The words “evil Baal” are also used when describing the incinerator. Bradbury also includes “The house shuddered, oak bone to bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries quiver in the scalded air” (Bradbury 332), which compares this house, this large piece of technology, to a human body. This shows how dependent he thinks people are when it comes to technology, almost saying that we are so dependent on it that we can’t live without it, saying it’s almost as important to live as our veins or

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