Technology Dystopias

Millions of people flock to the movie theater year after year on a quest to be entertained. Even a mediocre movie has the ability to take the audience to another place, escaping the realities of their own life, even if for just a few short hours. Some movies are simply pure entertainment. And then, there are those movies that provoke conversation long after the film has been viewed. Despite the popularity of the recent films The Hunger Games and Divergence, the dystopian theme in film is not a new one. The Matrix shows a society where humans exist without any freedom. The film, not only entertaining but thought provoking as well, paints a world with two different dimensions, a world very much like today’s when the film is closely examined. The Matrix questions the benefit of technology and influence over society.

Millions of people flock to the movie theater year after year on a quest to be entertained. Even a mediocre movie has the ability to take the audience to another place, escaping the realities of their own life, if only for a mere two hours. Some movies are simply pure entertainment. And then, there are those movies that provoke conversation long after the film has been viewed. Dystopian themes are not new, and have historically provided a template to gage the course of human existence. The Matrix portrays a society where humans exist without freedom. The film is not only entertaining, but also thought provoking. It paints a world with two different dimensions, one with the mind numbing

Do you think that living in a technical world would destroy society? Well, in Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, technology is very advanced and seems to get people's attention. "You're not important. You're not anything" (Bradbury 163). Fahrenheit 451 is explained as a dystopian literature. Such literature portrays an imaginary world where misguided attempts to create a utopia, or a socially and politically perfect place, results in “large scale human misery." (Critique by Michael M. Levy) This quote makes you realize that technology is taking over humans and the world has to do something about it. By creating an “utopia”, Fahrenheit 451 requires the government to take away citizen’s rights and freedoms to create the perfect society.

What if one-day technology becomes too enormous and popular that it can manipulate the human and turns the world into its own? What if technology becomes too mainstream that it can turn the human into its own slave? In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the story takes place in a society where people is a slave to the technology and literature is on the extinction. Ray Bradbury, the author of this book, wanted to warn the reader through this book is that technology is beginning to take over the human and weaken communication. He uses his book as a way to allude the importance of literature and how it’s an essential factor to the society.

We are all victims. We are all victims of being captured into the world of technology. A dysfunctional lifestyle comes to mind when we think of a world without technology. Think about how many opportunities we missed, friends we never met, and lessons we didn’t learn all because we were too busy looking at a screen. The increasing lack of human interactions in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury demonstrates how the rapid abuse of technology will lead to the demise of tradition and a world with little emotion.

The destruction of nature, increase in the pollution across the globe, constant surveillance upon everyone, and the inability to have the freedom to search what you would like on electronic devices. This action will result if the cautionary text, Fahrenheit 451, is not utilized to locate and withdraw flaws in our own modern and developing North American society. Despite the date of the text, the messages displayed can directly correlate to current dilemmas that may ultimately lead the U.S.A down the route of dystopia. This nation is making advancement toward a dystopian society because the NSA and Google are combining to form a super team in surveillance of its citizens and the

People of all ages suffer from the negative effects of long-term exposure to technology. As technology continues to evolve, the human brain struggles to keep up, and ultimately loses a multitude of once valued abilities, such as the ability to focus, and deep intellectual thinking. People grow severely attached to these new artificial intelligence, that they forget there are other real people whom they can communicate with and share thoughts with. As Fahrenheit 451 has illustrated, our society has evolved to interact with technology on a more personal level, change the way humans interact with one-another, shift the way political subjects are dealt with, and change what the roles of certain people in a community are and how those communities function.

Within the last couple of decades, technology has become a huge part in everyone’s daily lives. Everyday we look at our phone almost every five minutes and when we get home we all hop on some other form of technology such as our computers or televisions. However, this is almost exactly what Aldous Huxley and Neil Postman fear. There are some truths and some falsehoods to the statements that Postman proposed such as the idea that we will begin to enjoy our oppression, we will be ruled by the very things that we love, and that we will eventually be thrown so many lies that we will seize to know what the truth is and we will be exploring both sides of these assertions.

As the society develops and prospers, more and more scientists commit themselves to doing researches to help improve the whole society. “Who Holds the Clicker?” by Lauren Slater mainly discusses how psychosurgery and DBS (deep brain stimulation surgery) could let psychiatrists control the patient’s moods and minds as well as the unresolved controversies which these surgeries bring to the society. Another essay “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle argues the how new technologies like robots and smartphones have changed human and their lives while denying authenticity. Both authors talk about how some of the new technology may affect people as well as the surroundings. Technology is prevalently known as advantageous for the whole society,

“Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master,” Christian Lous Lange once said. Technology in the world has a huge influence on people in today’s society. Using these innovations with the right intentions can lead to growth and understanding, but too often technology has become the ‘master’ of its users. In Fahrenheit 451, the ubiquitous technology has controlled every aspect of the people’s sense of individualism and humanism in the destructive society. Ray Bradbury uses certain technological advancements to show how it can dismantle family relations, provides false satisfaction, and prevents people from gaining knowledge.

Imagine a world where everyone’s enigmatic thoughts were exposed to the public. Today, in the vast cyberspace, anonymity leads to audacious actions of cruel words posted by rather introverted individuals who would not dare to speak those words in a face-to-face encounter. Furthermore, they refuse to be held accountable for their actions and interfere with peace by creating chaos. The phrases “secrets are lies”, “sharing is caring” and “privacy is theft” (CITE?) are explicated in Dave Eggers, The Circle. Mae Holland follows these three mantras, justified by leaders of the Circle, to make life-changing decisions. A world extracted of anonymity and instead, policed by an omniscient public is one cause to the negative effects of technology on one’s private life. In The Circle, programs are developed in the Circle to implicate improved and advanced living conditions through the use of technology. Ironically, these programs such as “Past Perfect”, “ChildTrack”, “SoulSearch” and “SeeChange” introduce immoral issues. The plot of The Circle by Dave Eggers portrays the negative aspects of technology on private lives shown through character experiences in the novel and raises unethical issues about the programs created in the Circle, which correspond to the influence technology has in the real world.

Silence… that’s what will happen if we keep allowing technology to take over our life. . In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a science fiction novel, technology is taking over their world. A mechanical dog, a wall of T.Vs, and interactions with the T.V. That’s the type of technology that is taking over the society.

By attempting to dictate all matters of thought, from the brutal surveillance of 1984 to the unwavering dedication to a caste system in Brave New World, as well as choosing to forgo creativity and emotional freedom in order to substitute government propaganda, the people of these dystopian futures lose their humanity despite technology moving

The book “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury uses an immense amount of technology throughout the novel and it connects with our question of what it means to be a human in the technological age. In this story, everyone’s lives are censored through technology because their whole worlds revolve around it. Technology is the main source of entertainment and their government uses this to their advantage. They attempt to make a perfect society by removing the freedom of knowledge and feelings from the people. Books are forbidden to prevent people from their questioning thoughts and no one has real conversations about anything going on in their lives.

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.