The Negative Effects Of Technology In A Sound Of Thunder By Ray Bradbury

Technology is a wonderful thing. It has enabled us to do things that in the past were unimaginable to do. Technology these days has evolved a lot and it has changed our life for the better and for the worst. When I say for the better I mean that it has made us able to contact our beloved ones that are far away from home, made us able to use this technology to save our life when we are in danger, etc. But there are some bad things that this technology is doing to us. Since the Smartphones came out almost everybody has bought one of them, and most of them are using these smartphones every day and every hour. Nowadays this technology is ruining family gatherings because everyone is so focused on their phone that nobody even shares a story beside …show more content…
And in the story accidentally steps on a butterfly and kills it, and that butterfly changed things in the future. “"All right," Travis continued, "say we accidentally kill one mouse here. That means all the future families of this one particular mouse are destroyed, right?", "Right", "And all the families of the families of the families of that one mouse! With a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice!"” (A Sound of Thunder). This part of the story tells us that one little mouse in the past could kill billions in the future, and is not all about mouse, is about the animals that feed on the mouse too. For instance “"Well, what about the foxes that'll need those mice to survive? For want of ten mice, a fox dies. For want of ten foxes a lion starves. For want of a lion, all manner of insects, vultures, infinite billions of life forms are thrown into chaos and destruction. Eventually it all boils down to this: fifty-nine million years later, a caveman, one of a dozen on the entire world, goes hunting wild boar or saber-toothed tiger for food. But you, friend, have stepped on all the tigers in that region. By stepping on one single mouse. So the caveman starves. And the caveman, please note, is not just any expendable man, no! He is an entire future nation. From his loins would have …show more content…
In the story also it tells us the consequences that Eckels went through after he changed something in the past. He stepped on a butterfly and that tiny butterfly had changed the language and the president of the United States. “His face was cold. His mouth trembled, asking: "Who - who won the presidential election yesterday?"The man behind the desk laughed. "You joking? You know very well. Deutscher, of course! Who else? Not that fool weakling Keith. We got an iron man now, a man with guts!" The official stopped. "What's wrong?"Eckels moaned. He dropped to his knees. He scrabbled at the golden butterfly with shaking fingers. "Can't we," he pleaded to the world, to himself, to the officials, to the Machine, "can't we take it back, can't we make it alive again? Can't we start over? Can't we-"He did not move. Eyes shut, he waited, shivering. He heard Travis breathe loud in the room; he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon. There was a sound of thunder.” (A Sound of