The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury Analysis

The Influence of Technology Albert Einstein once said,“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots”. In the short story The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, this futuristic society has replaced technology with human interaction, therefore making a society full of idiot. The main character Mr. Mead experiences the negative issues of this advanced society. He finds out the hard way that his society lacks social skills and has No individualism. Mr. Mead’s negative society was antisocial due to their overuse of advanced technology. To begin, On Mr. Meads daily walks he never seems to have company, or in this case see anybody. Mr. Mead said, “In 10 years of walking by night and day for

For example, while Mr. Mead was doing his daily walks he was pulled over by a police car. The police car asked Mr. Mead a series of questions about his life, almost like he was questioning if he was even human. The police car said, “Business or profession” Mr. Mead said,”I guess you can call me a writer” the police car responded by saying, “no profession”(175). The police car didn't know what a writer was because writers haven't been relevant due to the technology. By claiming to be a writer, Mr. Mead shows that he is not like the rest of his idiotic society. However, he was once like them. While driving passed his house the narrator said, “They passed one house on one street a moment later, one house in an entire city of house they were dark, but this one particular house had all its electric lights brightly lit, every window a loud yellow illumination, square and warm in the darkness”(176). That Reference was telling us that he was the only human that wasn't affected by technology in his life. Overall, Technology was so advanced it brainwashed the society into using in and relying on it. Relying on it so much to do some of their