How Technology Leads To Privacy Invasion And A Disconnection From Emotions
Technology has provided us time and time again with numerous advances in the medical, science and entertainment fields. With all these improvements in our lives, we as a society have become too dependent on these trivial devices; what is supposed to be connecting us more is instead isolating us from each other. Children now and days are interacting with a screen more rather than interacting with the people around them, social media is plaguing the youth of this nation with challenges and other potentially dangerous stunts as well. This new era of tech comes with risks for everyone, invasion of privacy, too dependent on tech, and a disconnection from emotions. With tech advancements happening each day the solutions to this issue will be too hard to impose.
Privacy is something us as Americans take seriously, no one wants to be watched and have their privacy invaded and essentially that’s what new tech has been leading towards to. Many reports on the NSA having records on phone calls, text messages and emails really brought the people into a panic about how secure they really are. In the story the room has the power to take what the kids are imagining and personify it amongst the walls, with this power the freedom of thought is being taken away from you, the thoughts going on in your head would be displayed right there in the walls. With new inventions coming out every day such as drones no one will be able to hide let alone think for themselves if this is what tech leads to.
In the passage the children and parents are both essential being raised by the house: it cleans them, cooks for them, ties their shoes, brushes their teeth and even reads them a bedtime story. The house has taken all the work and self-independence from the family, they only know how to rely on the house to do thing for them and ultimately parish on their own. With GPS no one remembers the name of streets yet alone how to get to places on their own, with cell phones now and days the need to remember a phone number is not necessary (even i fall victim to this) cause everything is a tap on the screen away. The need for humans to depend on their own is slowly becoming obsolete, and the more we fall into this hole we’re putting our self in, digging out will be almost impossible to do so.
In the passage the kids don't respect or find their parents authoritative in any way. Due to the house practically raising them they cherish it more than they actually cherish the parents, you see this practically happening now and days. Parents now leave their child alone with say their iPad or any type of device, this would be the same exact result as the children in the story who grew up only trusting and loving the house and when the parents threaten to turn off the only thing they love the kids quickly took care of parents. Not saying kids will go around killing their parents but it will lead to kids growing up misbehaving and or disrespecting them, the emotional distance between parent and child can lead to the child having social issues and having other problems such as drug abuse and many other things. Technology has had good things come out of it as well, but if we continue on our path the bad are quickly, if not has started already, gonna start out weighing the good.
We need to band together as a community to raise awareness for the harmful environment too much tech could accomplish. Bradburry somehow foresaw the harmful environment tech could produce way back before any of the stuff we have today was even thought of, he realized it early on that if we don’t change our ways technology will be our downfall, it's only a matter of time.
