Introduction

This ISU, is about relating the theme of a story to different medias such as images, music, new articles and poems. The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, is a story about two children who have been so spoiled by technology, they replaced a technological room with their parents, thus enabling them to kill their own parents. This shows how we over time people are becoming more and more dependent on technology and therefore having the potential to undermine traditional morality. Songs such as Threats of Technology by Exiles and movies like Wall-E all tell us what could happen if we rely to much on technology. There are also other people discussing this issue for example the article from this link: http://cjwriter.com/2008/09/03/do-we-rely-too-heavily-on-technology/ The issues of technology has been an ongoing discussions and in this blog the relationship between the story The Veldt will be linked with other texts.

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Threats of Technology (Song/Lyric)

The first text used to link the theme of The Veldt, is a song by EXileS. This song talks about the future threats that technology holds. The song and the story are related in many ways. In the story technology had spoiled the two children so much that they had even turned against their own parents. In the lyrics of the song the rapper says scientists are trying to create robots with human sense, which may or may not turn against us. This is related to the theme of The Veldt, because both the story and the song believe that the technology has the potential to challenge human morality, thus being harmful to us in many ways.

The song is somewhat different from the theme of the story because the song talks bout technology turning against us while the story's theme is about technology demoralizing humans causing them to turn against each other. Thou in the song the rapper says, " We make & create to destroy and restore, but the machines will find a way/ to ignore. You implore- but they knew before. So, all your force goes out the door." This is very much related to what happened in the story when George Hadley tried to shut down the nursery, but it did not work out very well for George. It was as if the room did not want to die, that is exactly what the rapper says, and technology one day will refuse to be shut down. Many of these things mentioned so far are possible ways technology is harmful in the future but technology is also harmful in other ways then just robots and machines with their own mind, for example the Internet is the cause of many issues in today's society such as identity theft and stalking. Also many other things like obesity and laziness, which can be related with the next text.

Wall-E (Movie)

Wall-E is an animated movie by Disney Pixar from 2008. In this movie a single robot is left standing on Earth cleaning up a planet filled with garbage and waste. While all the humans are light years away in a spaceship heavily obese and lazy. This is a cause of over reliance on technology - humans have already begun the process to an unhealthy living style by sitting on their chairs all day and having technology to do all the work. This movie is related to the story because the Hadley children were also over reliant on their nursery.

If humans were to be stripped away from technology the world will fall into utter chaos – we would not be able to access water or heat, no way of transportation and communications would be gone. This is what happened in the story, the Hadley children reacted lunatic when their privilege to the nursery was taken away. This is due to the fact that their only source of entertainment and pretty much everything else was this piece of technology which happens to be a nursery, but they reacted this way for another reason and that is because the children were very spoiled. They’re entire life they got what ever they liked as George Hadley says in the story, “But nothing’s too good for our children.” If the Hadley children did not rely on technology so much, they would not have reacted the way they did and demoralizing themselves. Also the obesity percent in USA is 31 % or 59 million people. http://annecollins.com/weight_health/obesity-rate.htm. This is something people could easily avoid, with exercise or by even just moving around, but technology has prevented that, therefore technology has already begun its process of harming humans and their morality.

Do We Rely Too Heavily on Technology? (Article)

This is an article I found over the internet from a blog called A Writer’s Life by CJ Levinson. The article is linked to the theme of the story The Veldt because they both deal with issues of technology. The article is a piece in which the author states his thoughts about how technology is useful in ways but is always affecting humans.

In the article the author mentions how it is not technology that is bad but how people obsess over it, is the problem. His examples were cell phones and how some people text each other while they are in the same room. This is showing what is currently going on, meaning it will get a lot worse as we integrate technology into our lives even more. In the story the Hadley children were so obsessed with technology that they did not even want to go for vacation to a place without technology that will, do everything for them. As well in the article, CJ mentions how many people are becoming less and less intellectual. People are forgetting how to use their own senses and are relying on technology to do it for them. A calculator is a good example of that, many people now can not calculate basic math without a calculator. In all words, technology has the potential for great things, humans have come a long way with technological advances – humans are living longer and fighting of diseases but many people our losing their selves to this.

http://cjwriter.com/2008/09/03/do-we-rely-too-heavily-on-technology/

Conclusion

In conclusion, the theme of The Veldt by Ray Bradbury has a very good insight into the future of our lives, even though the story was written over 50 years ago. The story shows us what we are leading ourselves into which is potentially undermining human morality. Many people are getting this, yet it is something we can not stop because without technology the human race would possibly diminish. In other words humans are leading to their own demise.

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