Many of Ray Bradbury's works are satires of modern society from a traditional, humanist perspective (Bernardo). Technology, as depicted in his works, often displays human pride and folly (Wolfe). “In all these stories, technology, supported by philosophy and commercialism, attempts to eliminate the disadvantages, difficulties and challenges of the human being and, in its efforts to improve the human condition, impoverishes his spiritual condition” (Bernardo). Ray Bradbury's use of technology is common in Fahrenheit 451, "The Veldt" and The Martian Chronicles. Bradbury, who grew up with books as a child, uses the plot of Fahrenheit 451 to represent how literature is simply reduced. It focuses on the contrast between the world of books and that of television. According to the article “Fahrenheit 451,” from the early days of television in the 1950s, when every American rushed to have one in their homes, “watching television rivaled reading books” (148). Edward Eller suggests another reason for the extensive use of technology in Fahrenheit 451: during World War II, just before the novel's publication, "technological innovations allowed these fascist states to more effectively destroy books that did not they did not like and to produce new forms of communication. implanted with state-sanctioned ideas” (Eller 150). The idea of ​​replacing written fiction with large televisions obviously seemed logical at the time. One of the major technological advancements in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is the development of robots. The Clockwork Dog, a ferocious creature that appears to have powers greater than those of humans, “represents to Montag the entire technological society” (Kerr). This creature was created to catch criminals in the middle of a paper ......troit: Gale, 1997. 148-150. Print.Gallagher, Edward J. “The Thematic Structure of the “Martian Chronicles””. Discovering the authors. Ed. online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Internet. March 3, 2011. Hoskinson, Kevin. “The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury’s Cold War Novels.” Extrapolation (Kent State University Press). 36.4 (1995): 350-351. Literary reference center. Internet. March 2, 2011. Kerr, Calum A. “Literary Contexts in Novels: Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.” » (2008) Literary reference center. Internet. March 1, 2011. Macnee, Marie J. “Ray Bradbury.” Science fiction, fantasy and horror writers. Ed. Martin H. Greenburg and Joseph D. Olander. Flight. 1. New York: Gale Research Inc., 1995. 58. Print. Wolfe, Gary K. “Ray Bradbury.” Discovering the authors. Ed. online. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Internet. March 3 2011.