The Treasure Box Is Knowledge, And The Value Is Success And Power

Birkerts provides three effects that will occur as a result of moving away from the printed word to the electronic media. The first effect is the language erosion. He explains the reader that transition from books will lead to the “complexity and distinctiveness of verbal and written communication, which are deeply bound to transaction of print literacy, will gradually be replaced by a more telegraphic sort of plainspeak” (9). In the future our language will start to become more simple and dumb. Whereas, by reading books and printed materials people are able to dig more depth and understand and imagine the contents. But, soon this will start to disappear as people will no longer be able to understand the complex language of the literature and intelligence level of people will start to decrease. The second effect of electronic media is the flattening of historical perspectives. This means that due to the electronic media the history will start to recede because the “printed page itself is a link” and when this link is broken the past will gradually diminish (10). Birkerts explains the audience that the past is best represented in the books and libraries. Therefore, moving away from the printed word means moving away from the past and its history. The last effect is the waning of the private self. Birkerts worries that in the future people will forget how to live because of the electronic

In this society that is gradually becoming increasingly dependent on technology, will literature slowly disappear from the minds of the population? This is the question that Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, attempts to answer. In this book, he describes a hypothetical world in which the population not only avoids reading, but has made owning books an unthinkable crime, with all books discovered burned, along with the houses of those who hoarded them. In this dystopian future created by Bradbury, the beauty that is literature has been replaced in society by television programs and radio stations. This reveals Bradbury’s obvious fear that modern technology would completely replace books- a legitimate concern to have. In 2015, the value of books differ between groups of people. The disadvantage of this is that books provide the readers opportunity to allow their imaginations to run wild, something that television and radio never could. Fahrenheit 451 addresses the problem and fear of overwhelming technology through its fictional world, which shows what would happen should people render literature completely useless through the use of television and radios.

Larissa MacFarquhar’s essay titled,“Who Cares if Johnny Can’t Read?” , was published in the Slate magazine in 1997, rebuts the misconception that Americans in today’s society don’t read as much as people did in the past. MacFarquhar presented factual information to back up her claim that Americans do read and that they read more now than they ever did. In addition, people do not read classics as much as they read genre fiction and self-help in today’s society. MacFarquhar also stated that reading books is better than television. According to MacFarquhar, she believed that reading can stimulate emotions and allow people to participate unlike television. Later, she acknowledged that certain television can also stimulate emotions and allow people

Carr identifies how reading a book is different from reading online because when you read online, you don’t think deeply about what it is you’re reading, and you don’t have to concentrate nearly as much. Carr also mentions that the Internet is something people find themselves going to more often than books because it is more time efficient.

In Fahrenheit 451 they have televisions, radios, robots, and bigger technology to displace their interest in books. “It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that were once in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlor families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios

Growing up in working class family, my mom worked all the time for the living of a big family with five kids, and my dad was in re-education camp because of his association with U.S. government before 1975. My grandma was my primary guardian. “Go to study, go to read your books, read anything you like to read if you want to have a better life,” my grandma kept bouncing that phrase in my childhood. It becomes the sole rule for me to have better future. I become curious and wonder what the inside of reading and write can make my life difference. In my old days, there was no computer, no laptop, no phone…etc, to play or to spend time with, other than books. I had no other choice than read, and read and tended to dig

When it’s thought about only a few years ago people used to lie down in their bedrooms and read novels that would lie on their bedside table. In the book Fahrenheit 451 books are not read anymore, in fact books are illegal they rely heavily on technology use. This relates to today because soon society will stop publishing books altogether. People now have technology that puts books on screens rather them being read on paper. The updated technology now changes the society from the traditional aspects of it. Although technology helps society in many ways, it is hurting us, in this book Bradbury’s main character in fictional proof of how society will be in the future.

There are three main reasons why technology is damaging our society; it’s affecting our way of communicating with each other, reducing our self-reliance, and, last but not least, it’s dominating our society. The first reason, that it’s affecting our way of communicating with each other, is very prevalent in Fahrenheit 451 and our current society. In our current society, we use a many types of technology to communicate with each other. This ranges from iPads to iPhones to household telephones, etc.. This allows us to talk to each other without having to be close to each other, which presents the problem of diminishing the need for engagement with others. In Fahrenheit 451, a character by the name of Faber, invents a small radio that is to be inserted into the ear of Montag, which allows them to communicate with each other whenever they need to without having to have a face-to-face conversation. This also diminishes the need for engagement with others. Another situation is also faced in this book when firemen burn houses instead of preventing houses from burning. This occurs when the firemen find books of any kind in someone’s house because of the book ban in this novel. Not letting people read also diminishes the need for engagement with books, which links on to the bigger dilemma of

Carr said “What if I do all my readings on the web not so much because the way I read has changed. i.e. I’m just seeking convenience, but because the way I THINK has changed?” (Carr, pg 7). Since the internet has come into play people have stooped reading books because is easier to just google what they are wanting to know. The internet can change the way someone can process the information on a screen than in a book and how much is actually being consumed by the person. Not only is it changing the way we understand but every technology is an expression of the human will. This allows us to reshape nature to better serve our needs and desires. The internet has the greatest power over how and what we think

Technology has become an increasingly advanced as well as an important aspect in modern society. That is why Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, was right to fear books and other printed sources would be replaced by modern technology. Technology has contributed to the significant loss of time children spend reading. Additionally, eBooks have replaced print books. Moreover, television and radio have replaced newspapers as the dominant source of information.

In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury discusses the lack of interest in reading books and how the advancement of technology contributed to the lifestyle of the population. This world that Bradbury exhibits in Fahrenheit 451 lacks the interest of books. With advancement of technology: wall tvs, cars that go 150 mph at least, and even education is affected; the children learn from a tv. New technology has declined the popularity in reading so much that it was against the law to read altogether. “There was no longer need of firemen for the old purposes.

Technology is viewed in today’s society as an essential tool for Americans. It allows us to quickly share our ideas with other people and learn about any and everything. Many people use their devices as a source of entertainment. However, there are still some people in our country who use phones and computers as a tool only and still prefer books for knowledge and reading. Ray Bradbury, who is the author of Fahrenheit 451, likes the idea of technology as a way of accessing information but discourages other uses such as spending an obsessive amount of time playing videogames. In Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury uses the motif of technology to point out that our devices can never replace our human love of and need for nature and personal interaction.

Birkerts explores this idea thoroughly, projecting almost a sense of fear at the thought of any changes to what was already present. “A change [was] upon us—nothing could be clearer” (Birkerts, 2), and the unpredictability of it seemed frightening as is. But beyond this fear, there was a sense of urgency. An urgent need to halt whatever was yet to come, or at least stall these progressions until the importance of physical text was completely established. Having “ co-managed a used and rare book shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan” (Birkerts, 1), the value of literature held to be astronomically important to him. This, however, seemed to be slowly not applying to more and more of the general population with every advancement we’ve made electronically. Shifts in popular methods of learning held as no surprise to him, especially since this had been the case multiple times throughout history.“ [In] Greece…[around] the time of Socrates, the dominant oral culture was overtaken by the writing technology, [while] in

Now days with the rise of digital technology many physical items such as pen and paper are slowly being replaced by computers and smart phones. But is this really a good thing? I read books and of course so do many other people in this class and around the globe. But since the creation of ‘e-readers’ more and more people have been converting to the technology based side of reading. Although technology is slowly becoming more predominant in this era we should not rely on it to always entertain and keep us occupied.

During the development of technology, most people have shifted to use electronic books to read both academic and non-academic texts. However, despite the technological changes, there has been a wide debate about the benefits of paper books over the e-books. It is important to understand that various reasons are suggesting why people should shift back to using the traditional books rather than the electronic ones. Even though some think that e-books are better that traditional ones, I believe that readers should return to traditional books because of various reasons.