
Life changes as the time go on. In every generation, people have many ranges of interests, depending on what's available for them to reach. A long time ago, children and youth used to learn things quicker by doing them, just because they had nothing else to do. Also, children used to learn how to read quicker in the past than they do now. Talking about the past, on the other hand, parents, also in general, used to be closer to their children than they do now. What is being indicated here is that as the technology grows up, individuals get lazier. A person will not learn because there is the small computer in his hand. Whenever he got a question, he will ask his smart little device. Them children, instead of educating themselves by reading stories and novels, they watch movies and TV. Also, them children instead of asking their mom for food, they could make it themselves with their smart "food maker." 

In a famous short story written by Ray Bradbury called "The Veldt," Ray talks about a family that lives in a techno house where everything they ever need could be done by the house itself. In that smart house, there's this "nursery room," as he calls it, that could take you wherever you are thinking in mind. The main idea of the story that the children spend most their time in that room. They eat, study, play in it. Plus that they never need their parents. 

However, through the story and couple of interviews with Mr. Bradbury, I am going to argue that technology affects the relationship between the parents and their children and it makes individuals lazier about learn. 

In an interview with Mr. Bradbury on the 28th of March 1992, he states that "children today do not read as much as those in decades past. But they don’t bother proposing theories about ethnic backgrounds or lenient parents or even the allure of that numbing electronic baby sitter known as television." (Aggelis, Louis, 2003). Indicating that child these days would rather watch TV instead of practice reading. Also, he gives the reason why the children are that way. He said “It’s the teacher’s fault. They’ve failed, and it’s time to re-evaluate our educational system. Teachers today are not teaching reading in the first grade, and how can we expect a child to want to read in the third grade or even care about a refined science course in the eighth grade if he didn’t learn to read in the first grade?” (Aggelis, Louis, 2003). And then he goes by saying the solution to the problem. However, I could relate the first-grade teachers he was talking about to the technical room in his short story. Wendy and Peter stay in that room all the time to learn or to live in Africa but refuse to physically go on a real life adventure with their parents: "The two children were in hysterics. They screamed and pranced and threw things. They yelled and sobbed and swore and jumped at the furniture."

On the other hand, talking about how the technology could affect the relationship between the parents and their children, an article called "Unconcerned!" written by Gene Beley states that Ray Bradbury answers some audience questions about "The Veldt," by saying "When the parents try to shut the room off, the children tamper with the television room. The lions come out of the walls of the room and eat the parents. And this is my happy ending! You wouldn't read a straight novel a family critical of TV. But if I can trick you with a fabulously with a story about an adult land and lions and television room and children involved with these lions in Africa where, at the last moment, the room destroys the parents symbolically, then I've got you! Three days later, you wake up and say, 'Hey, is he talking about us right now?' So science fiction is a way corrupting all of you, of subverting you, of giving you some of my subversive political ideas when I don't want you to know quite what I'm up to. This way, I can trick a Communist at the same time I can trick a John Bircher. The funny thing is Fahrenheit 451 has been pirated all over Russia and is one of their most popular novels." (Beley, 2006). Therefore, when parents leave their children all the way without showing them any importance and loving, the children will not consider their parents as their parent as well because their parents are no different than any other individual. In other words, any subject treats any child in general in a really friendly way and provides all the child needs is going to be loved by the child. And that’s exactly what happened in the Veldt story. 

In conclusion, everything has pros and cons life. So, even though technology could affect us in a bad way, it could also benefit us in so many other ways if we use it in the right way. Even those bad effects could be avoided if we know when and how to use them. For example, learning by reading and experiencing is the most effective way of educating. And we could use some technology support sometimes to enforce some lack of knowledge. Also, when children do not feel in need for their parents when their parent are gone, that means their parents were never there. Therefore, over use the technology is not just always about making life easier. Parents should spend sometimes with their children, help them when they need, play with them, and fead them. 
