Life changes over time. 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 expands, individuals get seperated and lazier. A person will not learn because there is the small computer in his hand. Whenever he gets a question, he will ask his smart little device. Children, instead of educating themselves by reading stories and novels, they watch movies and TV. Also, 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," Bradbury 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 takes you wherever you are thinking in mind. The main idea of the story is that the children spend most of their time in that room. They eat, study, play in it. Plus, they never need their parents. 

In contrast, throughout 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 learning. 

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 past decades. But they do not 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). Bradbury indicates that children 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 states 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, the children, 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." At one point of the story, when the parents realized their children should take a break from the tech room because they think it harms them, the children did not accept the idea and were crying and screaming at their parents. 

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." According to Bradbury in the article, "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" (Beley, 2006). Bradbury states that it was his "happy ending!" And then he said that no one would read a straight novel about a family and television. But instead, he could trick the reader 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" (Beley, 2006). He is referring to the parents that leave their children all the way without showing them any importance or loving. The children will not consider their parents as their true parents because they are no different from any other individual. In other words, any subject treats a child in a really friendly way and provides all the child needs is going to be loved and obeyed by the child. And that’s exactly the message of “The Veldt.” And the main point of the quote above is that he wants those type of parents to read his story and learn a lesson. 

In conclusion, everything has pros and cons in life. So, even though technology could affect us in a bad way, it could also benefit us in good ways if we use it correctly. Even those bad effects could be avoided if we know when and how to use technology. 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 lose their parents, for example, and they do not feel the need or the magnitude of that, it means their parents were never there and that the children never felt the love. Therefore, parents should spend sometimes with their children, help them when they need, play with them, and feed them. Nevertheless, overuse of the technology is not just always about making life easier.
