Essay About The Future In Bradbury

What do you believe the future will be like?

Let's take a look into the future, and prove how it wouldn't be as good as we think it would be.

In Bradbury's short stories, he uses his idea of the future to inform the reader on how technology could be a bad thing.

He goes into extensive detail on how technology has flaws, how it can negatively affect us, and how it could be advancing too far one way yet not enough in the other.

With that being said, what does he think the future will be like?

To answer that question; let's take a few examples from his work.

Firstly, Bradbury's idea for the future is usually grim and dark.

As it's not traditionally quite as bright as we'd expect it to be.

In one of his story's, he shows us how technology may

Cop cars in the future, could arrest you just for walking down the street, simply because it's out of the norm. "The back door of the police car sprang wide. 'Get in' 'Wait a minute, I haven't done anything!" (The Pedestrian)

It's chaotic, as a police car can deem you suspicious and arrest you on the spot.

In the future, you could have the ability to project holographic animals like lions, and have them react to the world around them physically.

It sounds great, but no one would dare to think to leave them alone with their kids.

Furthermore, we take our advancements in technology for granted, and most of us are blind to how it affects us.

Especially since we've grown up with things that were once science fiction 30 years ago.

Since then, we've had a tremendous increase in technology, especially in the last decade, and that number is only getting bigger each year, as technology advances at a superb rate.

Maybe even too much that not even we could handle.

Houses can make breakfast for us every day, even if we're not home.

"The breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly brown toast" (There Will Come Soft