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“America’s ‘Oh Sh*t!’ Moment”, written by Niall Ferguson, a historian who teaches at Harvard University, in 2011, explores why civilizations collapse, and how America can avoid this. He does not focus only on America, but many civilizations in the past that have collapsed. Niall Ferguson is the author of Civilization: The West and The Rest. The article is creatively and cleverly written using the metaphor of modern technology to describe the way in which the societal collapse occurs. This shows that the article was written for adults who are highly educated and understand and relate to technology. The article discusses the possibilities of what complete collapse would look like in American society. I believe the author successfully

What are the true motives behind the writing of the two short stories written by Ray Bradbury? Digging deeper into the mind of the author, interpreting the era in which he lived and wrote the story, we get a better understanding of the deeper meaning of these short stories. August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rain and A Sound of Thunder are used to portray Bradbury’s fear of the destruction of the human kind through self absorption and corruption. Simultaneously, Bradbury expresses the fact that nature will continue to thrive with or without humans.

Ray Bradbury’s short story, There Will Come Soft Rains, centers around a self-automated house within a technologically advanced and possibly post apocalyptic time period. Similar to many other works of Bradbury, the story begins with little to no context and can only be described as vague. However, Bradbury employs diction, metaphors, and imagery throughout to allow readers to grasp the setting and overarching atmosphere of the story.

Technology, which has brought mankind from the Stone Age to the 21st century, can also ruin the life of peoples. In the novel Brave New World, the author Aldous Huxley shows us what technology can do if we exercise it too much. From the novel we can see that humans can lose humanity if we rely on technology too much. In the novel, the author sets the world in the future where everything is being controlled by technology. This world seems to be a very perfectly working utopian society that does not have any disease, war, problems, crisis but it is also a sad society with no feelings, emotions or human characteristics. This is a very scary society because everything is being controlled even before someone is born, in test tube, where they

Technology, is it a killer of our society, or does it give society life? In the movie WALL-E, the writers explore a futuristic universe where earth is no longer inhabited by humans because of over consumption.To survive, the remaining humans live in a utopian spaceship where everything is done for them by robots. In the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains,” a technologically advanced house fulfills the everyday needs and tasks of a futuristic family even after they are gone. Through their literary works, both Bradbury and Disney-Pixar demonstrate that technology can have both positive and negative effects on society.

Ray Bradbury once said, "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it." These days you'll find that most people walk around with phone in hand. To a certain extent Bradbury's are becoming realities. However in order to prevent the worst from happening, readers must consider just what that worse thing would be. What was it that Ray Bradbury was trying so hard to prevent?

Technology today has advanced and impacted our way of living and the dependence on it has become a natural habit for our society. People today depend on their phones for numerous things such as, talking, messaging, driving directions, surfing the web or even to update their current Facebook status. Many people say that since they rely so heavily on technology, it has been known to weaken our society’s ability to open a book or newspaper to find information instead of looking at your phone. Technology has become a crutch for our generation today and without it we would fail. There have been inferences that technology will ruin us and lead us to extinction. In Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains”, he purveys speculation that technology is the cause of downfall in society and that nature will outlast man’s creation.

Science fiction is a genre that has characteristics such as a futuristic setting and a human element. It is based on controversial areas of science or specific theories that have not yet been proven to be true. Science fiction works depict what may happen in the future as an effect of what technology and events exist presently. The genre of the short story There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury is identifiable as science fiction through the setting, character and plot.

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.

For example, in the movie WALL-E the humans completely trashed Earth therefore they lived in the Axiom with very advanced tech that transfers them around the ship, feeds them, and even puts on their clothes for them. (WALL-E) Fahrenheit 451 also shows a way that the overuse of technology can negatively impact people. To go into depth more, Mildred is blinded by the government and hates books, but loves her televisions so much she even goes as far as calling them her family. (Bradbury, p. 108) In WALL-E a company called BNL has blinded the citizens into thinking everything on this spaceship is amazing, and the people look healthy. Although in reality the humans are taking advantage of the technology so much that they become overly obese and can barely walk. Also, in Fahrenheit 451 society has completely stopped the reading of books and they have even gone as far as burning down your house if books are found. Due to this the citizens have become less intelligent and dull, kinda like rocks because all they do is watch television to pass time. In both of these cases, the humans have suffered negatively due to their overuse of

The text, There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury tells the story of a robotically controlled house left standing in a post-apocalyptic world. Every day, life continues as normal for the house until it meets the same fate of “death” as it catches on fire and burns to the ground, leaving only one voice behind.

Albert Einstein once said, "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." Back then there was very little technology that was controlling humanity. Today, phones are captivating societies around the world. Based on this, what will happen in the future? Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, portrays a world where technology goes too far. Throughout the novel, Bradbury proposes the idea of mindlessness of mass culture. It is a warning to societies everywhere because one day that could be the reality. The definition of happiness changes along with interest and care. They no longer care about anything. The definition of knowledge is also changed. They no longer read. This book was written when T.V First came out, and now seeing how technology is driving society today, this book is a cautionary novel. Their happiness, knowledge and mindlessness is all changed due to technology. This may be a society someday.Bradbury proposes warnings about the mindlessness of mass culture

In the book Fahrenheit 451, there are many indications of a society that is more technologically advanced, but at the same time they are at a point of social destruction.

“August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains” is a story written by Ray Bradbury. The story opens in a living room of a well technologically advance house, where a clock which is voice activated yells out the time, making sure everyone gets up, and also makes breakfast, cleans, and does just about all the household things you are to do. After we read about all the things the house does, we start to notice that the house is empty, which then leads us to learn about the silhouettes on the walls of the house, which we can infer, based on our knowledge of bombs that this is from some type of nuclear bomb. As we read on we learn that the house is the only house left standing in a pile of ruins. After a while the voice in the house starts to play one of Mrs. McClellan favorite poems, which is ironic given the type of situation that the house is unaware that has taken place, the poems talks about nature and how it will still move on and not care that mankind has wiped itself out completely. After the poem, the mood of the story changes the house catches on fire and even with all of its technology it still can’t stop the fire and burns down, the only thing that remains is a wall, which holds the clock that just keeps repeating the date August 5, 2026. From reading the story I think the author plays with the idea that nature is the only thing that can go along its track without any human interactions.