Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Veldt (Found in the book "The Illustrated Man")

Technology isn't a threat to our society. At least, not yet. It has led us to new discoveries. To cures that were, before the technology we have today, unknown. But it can get out of hand. "The Veldt" is a perfect example. In this short story, a family of four decides to buy a fully automated house, complete with a nursery for the children. This nursery is the main problem of the story.  It takes the imagination of whoever occupies the room and puts it on the walls, creating your own virtual-reality dream world. Add that to the house that does every single thing for you, and you get a very lazy, spoiled family. But one day the parents get sick of their children's spoiled behavior and decide to turn off the house and take a vacation. Big mistake. Instead of immediately leaving the home after packing, they decide to let the children play a little longer in the nursery. The parents were murdered by the children's dream world, thinking that when the children called for them, they were in trouble and needed help. See how out of hand our own creations can get? In my opinion, we should limit ourselves to the amount of technology we use. That way we will avoid becoming lazy and spoiling ourselves to the point of no return.

1 comment:

  1. I concur - if we put some type of limitation on how we use technology, it may decrease our laziness and dependence on it.

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