Technological Future In Ray Bradbury's 'The Veldt'

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The story line in Ray Bradbury's “The Veldt” brings forth a vision of a wonderful technology driven future while also evoking a technological nightmare. The tale describes the HappyLife Home where absolutely everything is done for each and every member of the family – where everything is just too good to be true. Both Ray Bradbury's short story "The Veldt" and nonfiction articles about the use of Artificial Intelligence [AI] in veterinary medicine illustrate some potential benefits and detriments of technology.

Enumerating the benefits of the technological future in “The Veldt” uses up a lot of words, pages and time in that story. The positives begin with the sound proofing of the house against the outside elements. The house is actually sensitive …show more content…

What the parents originally thought was a positive consequence of such technology,however; that they would have absolutely nothing to do, actually turns out to be a negative. Other negatives are discovered through conversations or actions. The parents start to feel incompetent, unable to do things for their kids as well as the house can. The children seem to feel the same way. The technology has made them look at their parents as unnecessary. The end result of the technology is that it not only eliminates the parents in fact, but it takes away their control either because the technology malfunctions or because the children have learned how to manipulate and take control of the …show more content…

Because veterinary medicine deals with many different species of animals, treatment will be more difficult. Animals from different species have different anatomies and different physiological features which cannot all be generalized and abstracted for treatment using AI. It will not be a “one size fits all” in veterinary medicine. In addition, according to Peake, since the FDA does not currently regulate AI in veterinary products, this could create ethical problems as well as legal problems. Therefore, it is good news that educational courses in veterinary medicine schools are beginning to introduce AI for students to grapple with the detrimental effects that may occur with its use and for them to ask pertinent questions about its use. In particular, the ability of a veterinarian to euthanize his patients for medical or financial concerns is a major topic for their discussion

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