Technology Influence On Fahrenheit 451

I remember as a kid there was nothing more enchanting then going home to play video games. Before I knew it I had become enslaved by my video games. Back then I did not realize it but everything I did was influenced by my video games. Just as I didn’t realize the chains video games had tied around my legs, much of society doesn’t realize how they have become tied down and enslaved by technology. Technology really has come far since 1951. In 1951 it was only possible to hypothesize about futuristic technology just as Ray Bradbury did in his book Fahrenheit 451. However, Ray Bradbury would have never imagined the decisive role that technology has had upon children of the 21st century. Internet, video games, and television has a detrimental effect

Thus a study was conducted to prove this hunch. The research was done by a group of highly skilled doctors of philosophy: Robert C. Whitaker, Jeffrey A. Wright, Margaret s. Pepe, Kristy D. Seidel, and William H. Dietz. The research took place in a laboratory setting. There were 31 subjects; 15 of whom were obese children and 16 normal-weight children. All subjects had two measure of resting energy expenditure obtained; one during rest and the other taken as they watched television. Conclusively the research team concluded in a article called Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity that metabolic rates during television viewing was significantly lower compared to the metabolic rate of children at rest. The peculiar conclusion was that children who are obese have a larger decrease in their metabolic rate compared to normal-weight children. After the study concluded the researchers found that their conjecture was correct; screen time is at fault for a decrease in metabolic