TiVo Take over

The fact that this story was written over fifty years ago is mind blowing. Bradbury’s idea’s and metaphors to the world he saw us turning into are almost all right. The idea that our world will be dominated by television, and books would be taking a backburner is correct. His story is somewhat farfetched talking about how television will completely dismiss the need for books. The world will come to a place where we are not considered illiterate but we are not thinking for ourselves. The human population will just be told how to think and act, we will not be creating our own perception of the world, people and nature. People will watch television and the ideas and information the television gives us will be as far as our minds may go.

The Internet I feel has destroyed our ability to hear one person’s full opinion on any subject. With reading a book we are forced to listen and illustrate one authors ideas and really grasp one point of view. With the Internet we have the ability to dismay any sort of viable information we do not agree with. With the click of a mouse we are given the opportunity to look for the same information written in the way we want to hear it. However, to a certain extent the Internet has given us the means to learn information at a much greater magnitude. Our possibilities are endless with the Internet unlike a book that we only convey one person’s message.

Television may have taken on a whole new persona in the roles we play in our households. Many centers their entire day’s around a certain television series they feel directly relates to their life, or a life they’ve dreamed of. With the invention of TiVo This routine has been made possible for any American, whether they are a stay at home mother chasing four children around, or an extremely successful business man who only makes it home twice a week. This invention has been put into almost every home, and is now accessible through our Smartphones You can be at the office, and just a tap on your phone screen and your TiVo receiver at home will record whichever television show you desire. This is not the only downplay to television; I also feel that television has taken over our readers because many films are made after a book is written. If the book happens to become a best seller there will be no need to tell your friends to go out and look for this book merely because in as little as 6 months the book will be made into a film in theatres.

I do feel that technology has taken over the way we learn, especially for children. They learn their ABC’s through watching television shows like Sesame Street instead of their parents opening up a book and showing them the words on a page. I do not feel that this all is considered a bad thing however because our society has become more intelligent, we have not become mindless bodies who only believe what we are told. We have actually adapted to this new lifestyle and have become better people and more charismatic and thoughtful to new ideas. I do not feel our society will ever lead to the burning of books. Even with the new digital books like the Amazon Kindle taking over the way we read will not ever lead to a nationwide extinction of the flimsy paperbacks we all know and love. The United States is too overbearing about people’s feelings and our rights as American’s to take our possessions out of our homes and burn them. No matter how technologically advanced our society becomes books will always be a part of our lives, whether on a file, or on our selves at home.