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When Bradbury wrote this novel in the 1950s, it was common to have a television at home for the first time.  One of the reasons he wrote Fahrenheit 451 was to warn people from becoming too consumed by this new technology. All of the previous quotes show the negative and unnatural side effects of technology. While the government uses technology as a way to bring "culture" and "knowledge" to this society, it actually just feeds the people lies and short-lived entertainment. In many ways, it makes an individual seem less human. Montag calls Mildred "empty" and shows that she is incapable of love because she spends her days consumed by technology.  He wanted to show how technology really did not give someone happiness.  It created the illusion of happiness.  It made people forget what is important in their lives.

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"An in [Mildred's] ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty."

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"Cram them full of noncombustible data, absolutely 'brilliant' information . . . [they] just like solid entertainment."

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"'Does your family love you with all their heart and soul, Millie?'
'Why'd you ask a silly question like that?'"

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"But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seen in a TV?  It becomes and is the truth.  Books can be beaten down with reason.  But with all my knowledge and skepticism, I have nver been able to argue with . . . those incredible parlor walls."

(Parlor walls are covered in televisions in this book)

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This powerful and engaging video shows how Bradbury's concerns are still important today.  He discusses how technology isolates people from others and the consequences of this lifestyle.

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I think that Bradbury's warning of how dangerous technology is extremely important and relevant.  Technology is something that is supposed to connect and engage people.  In many ways, it is positive and helps humanity.  However, Bradbury did a great job of showing just how corrupt and destructive the world can be if we abuse technology.  The articles and video reinforced this view by showing how the same addiction from the novel is seen in real life.  There is a fine line between benefiting from technology and using it to only help ourselves.  Fahrenheit 451 made me rethink how much I use my phone and how much time I spend on the internet.  I see how it isolates me and changes what my priorities are.

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Clarisse McClellan is definitely an outsider in this technology consumed society.  She shows Montag the beauty of nature and true friendship for the first time.  These are things that are considered dangerous and unnatural in the society.  Unfortunately, she is killed a fourth of the way through the book, and her development stops.  Clarisse's questions and conversations with Montag are what jump-started Montag's transformation.  She could have helped Montag and Faber create a better world if she had been given the chance.  Clarisse's development would have shown a more hopeful ending as opposed to the Bradbury's open ended ending.  More questions would have been answered. Her insight and ideas about the society of Fahrenheit 451 would have provided more evidence for Bradbury's claim that technology addiction is dangerous.

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This article shows how social media can be romanticized.  People care about how many followers they have more than if they are actually having a relationship with those people.  It is similar to how Mildred thinks the TV characters are her "family." This connects to the novel because it reveals how technology can make someone forget what's important in their lives.

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Melissa Nilles
Arts & Entertainment Editor

Photo by Andrea Rodriguez

I had a terrible nightmare the other night. Instead of meeting for a quick cup of coffee, my friend and I spent 30 minutes texting back and forth about our day. After that, instead of going in to talk to my professor during his office hours, I emailed him from home with my question. Because of this, he never got to know who I was, even though he would have been a great source for a letter of recommendation if he had. I ignored a cute guy at the bus stop asking me the time because I was busy responding to a text. And I spent far too much time on Facebook trying to catch up with my 1000+ "friends," most of whom I rarely see, and whose meaning sadly seems to dispel even more as the sheer number of "connections" I've made grows.

Oh wait, that wasn't a dream. This technological detachment is becoming today's reality.

Little by little, Internet and mobile technology seems to be subtly destroying the meaningfulness of interactions we have with others, disconnecting us from the world around us, and leading to an imminent sense of isolation in today's society. Instead of spending time in person with friends, we just call, text or instant message them. It may seem simpler, but we ultimately end up seeing our friends face to face a lot less. Ten texts can't even begin to equal an hour spent chatting with a friend over lunch. And a smiley-face emoticon is cute, but it could never replace the ear-splitting grin and smiling eyes of one of your best friends. Face time is important, people. We need to see each other.

This doesn't just apply to our friends; it applies to the world around us. It should come as no surprise that face-to-face interaction is proven by studies to comfort us and provide us with some important sense of well-being, whether it's with friends or friendly cashiers in the checkout line of Albertson's. That's actually the motivation behind Albertson's decision last year to take all of the self-checkout lanes out of its stores: an eerie lack of human contact.

There's something intangibly real and valuable about talking with someone face to face. This is significant for friends, partners, potential employers, and other recurring people that make up your everyday world. That person becomes an important existing human connection, not just someone whose disembodied text voice pops up on your cell phone, iPad or computer screen.

It seems we have more extended connections than ever in this digital world, which can be great for networking, if it's used right. The sad fact of the matter is that most of us don't. It's too hard to keep up with 1000 friends, let alone 200. At that point, do we even remember their names? We need to start prizing the meaning of quality in our connections, not sheer quantity.

One of my best friends from my hometown has 2,241 Facebook friends. Sure, her posts get a ton of feedback, but when I asked her about the quality of those relationships, she said to me that she really has few friends that she can trust and spend time with happily. Using a strange conundrum like this as a constructive example, we should consider pruning our rampant online connections at the very least.

Past evolutionary psychology research by British anthropologist and psychologist Robin Dunbar has revealed that people are actually limited to a certain number of stable, supportive connections with others in their social network: roughly 150. Furthermore, recent follow-up research by Cornell University's Bruno Goncalves used Twitter data to show that despite the current ability to connect with vast amounts of people via the Internet, a person can still only truly maintain a friendship with a maximum of 100 to 200 real friends in their social network.

While technology has allowed us some means of social connection that would have never been possible before, and has allowed us to maintain long-distance friendships that would have otherwise probably fallen by the wayside, the fact remains that it is causing ourselves to spread ourselves too thin, as well as slowly ruining the quality of social interaction that we all need as human beings.

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So what are we doing with 3000 friends on the Internet? Why are we texting all the time? Seems like a big waste of time to me. Let's spend more time together with our friends. Let's make the relationships that count last, and not rely on technology to do the job for us.

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Technology is Destroying the Quality of Human Interaction - The Bottom Line UCSB

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Melissa Nilles Arts & Entertainment Editor Photo by Andrea Rodriguez I had a terrible nightmare the other night. Instead of meeting for a quick cup of coffee, my friend and I spent 30 minutes texting back and forth about our day.

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This article talks about how technology is becoming more addictive to meet the needs of the people.  The medias are using billions of dollars to meet these needs.  People's lives continually rely on the technology and companies are profiting of that.  This is similar to the government using the televisions to brainwash the society of Fahrenheit 451.

(For some reason several articles were attached to the link.  I'm only referring to the first three sections)

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Becoming Engulfed by Digital Multimedia

Photos, videos, graphics and more are taking over our online experience. And in response, companies and publishers are all pouring money into developing even more multimedia for us to consume. How do we know this? These numbers tell the story. - Farhad Manjoo

How We Get Redpilled, Cucked and Triggered Online

The alt-right's most enduring legacy may be its lexicon. With passphrases borrowed from sources as varied as men's rights message boards and pro-Trump YouTubers, the language has escaped its origins and lodged firmly in our national discourse. Pull up a chair - it's time for a vocabulary lesson. - Kevin Roose

A reference to a scene in "The Matrix" that is now used to indicate a person who has achieved a state of right-wing enlightenment. Becoming "redpilled" could mean realizing that Jews control the media, or that feminists are the real oppressors.

The state of being earnestly offended by an opposing view. On the right-wing internet, being triggered is an automatic admission of defeat.

A weak, emasculated liberal, or a right-wing politician who has abandoned conservative values. Short for "cuckservative," a portmanteau of "cuckold" and "conservative."

A term borrowed from social science, now used to refer to liberals who conspicuously express left-wing values, primarily for the purposes of impressing other liberals.

Cryptocurrencies for All. Or Even for Nothing.

Today's virtual currency market is a lawless free-for-all, and as with any good gold rush, scammers and schemers have moved in alongside legitimate peddlers to create their own digital currencies for all manner of things. Here are a few egregious examples of crypto-world flotsam that have succeeded despite themselves. - Kevin Roose

Photographs by John Yuyi. Art direction by Antonio De Luca, Jason Fujikuni, Agnes Lee. Produced by Andrew Rossback. Modeling by Sara Hiromi, Jason Fujikuni.

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Even the Tech Elite Are Worrying About Tech Addiction

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Becoming Engulfed by Digital Multimedia Photos, videos, graphics and more are taking over our online experience. And in response, companies and publishers are all pouring money into developing even more multimedia for us to consume. How do we know this? These numbers tell the story.