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Technology In Ray Bradbury's 'The Veldt'

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Technology is a helpful thing to have.Technology has modernized life in many ways.With this comes many moral issues.Technology has many benefits and dtriments as displayed in Ray Bradbury's short story ¨The Veldt¨ and in modern-day technology like polygraph machines. As illustrated in Ray Bradbury's short story “The Veldt,” the Hadley’s purchased a ¨HappyLife Home.¨This house was fully automated with things like machines that tie shoes, lights that turn on when the family walk through and a nursery that could be used to illustrate anything some one could think of (Bradbury). With all these features, this house was supposed to give the family members more time to spend together and take away the mindless tasks many people hate doing. Another …show more content…

This is illustrated by Peter Hadley’s quote, “That sounds dreadful! Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it? And brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?” (Bradbury)This quote shows that the Hadley family has become so dependent on these devices in their home that they would not know how to survive without them. Ultimately, the biggest detriment is that the kids used the technology that was supposed to help them to kill their parents in the end. Thus, this alone shows the many negative things this “Happylife Home” causes to the …show more content…

Criminal investigators can use a polygraph machine to ask people for details about a crime that only a person that was there or had committed it would know.Furthermore, a polygraph machine can be used for job screenings. Cops can also use a polygraph to force confusion out of people as demonstrated in this quote “often as part of a criminal investigation. A little known trick of interrogators when administering a polygraph is to convince the person undergoing the examination that the lie detector has shown results that do not bode well for the subject, and that he or she should simply come

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