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Technology in society plays a huge role in everyone's daily lives. People use technology constantly, in every aspect of their lives. From work to school to home, the central part of our day is the use of technology. Technology has had an influential impact on people's lives today in many ways. People today are losing the human interaction that is so necessary, they interact via social media but they lose that experience of human interaction and the ability to sense how they feel about something from their tone of voice. Someone's mood can be affected enormously by looking at one of their social media messages or sites, just like that someone's day can go from amazing to absolutely horrible. People today have lost that touch. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is about a society set in the future where the possession of books is a criminal act. However, being so-called different and having individuality is something looked down upon in their society; that of today's society would consider it a wonderful thing to have. By reading Fahrenheit 451 the reader can see how technology can really affect people and how human interaction is lost very quickly. The world is becoming smaller due to new technological innovations... Looking at this society today we can see it. We can now connect with our loved ones living on the other side of the world, through the many innovations of new technology. After reading "Facebook and Free Speech" you can understand how influential technology really is. “Facebook, Google and Twitter have more power over who can speak and what can be said around the world than any king or president or supreme court justice” (Henn 5) The fact that Facebook can have more control over what can be ... middle of paper ... market because they did everything right, but they didn't do any of the work. “An hour of TV class, and an hour of basketball or baseball or another hour of transcription history or picture painting and more sports, but you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't ago; they just answer you, bing, bing, bing." (Bradbury 31). This explains that they do nothing, all they do is sit and watch TV. Electronic components and their services have affected the lives of these worlds tremendously. The society has relied on it left and right to verify their answers or to answer people's questions. Also, educate them on the latest and greatest trends happening; how to write an article. Works Cited Bradbury, Ray. "Fahrenheit 451." 2013.