In Ray Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451” (1953), he describes the Mechanical Hound as a hit man that viciously tracks down “criminals,” but also uses this character to represent modern-day abuse of technology and to show how society’s advances in science have gone from harmless to destructive. More than any other character in this popular science-fiction novel, the mechanical Hound represents the true nature of Guy Montag’s society: hypnotized by the allures of technology, and dehumanized as a result
described in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, is a chaotic, dystopian world. This America is an opposite to present day society. People are so preoccupied with technology; many cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality, nor do they seem interested in doing so. Conversations have become less intellectual and more about the latest television program. Books are nearly obsolete thanks to the work of the firemen, who burn the homes of those harboring books. Both the people and technology are at fault
of his childhood. His experiences as a child are what allowed him to create the stories that shape the author he is seen as today. The combination of his inspiration, the stories that came from those inspirations, and his ability to predict the technology of the future, is why Bradbury is considered one of the best science fiction writers of his time. Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in the town of Waukegan, Illinois. His father, Leonard Bradbury, was a lineman with the Waukegan Bureau of Power
face. This is one of many examples of how technology is limiting our social skills as well as human contact with each other. Not just contact itself, but when people are texting they have a specific lingo in which to type with a lowercase I or misspelling words on purpose to make the process shorter. Sometimes this “texting lingo” can affect people’s performances when writing essays for English class. Although the limitation of human contact due to technology makes life easier and more efficient, but