I Think that with all the evidence given to us in the story, I can conclude that in the future people will be so addicted to and controlled by their devices that they would rather stay indoors every day and night to have “fun” watching TV and doing other things on the screen rather than going outside and enjoying the fresh air with their friends and family. In the story the narrator says “In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not once in all that time.”
This goes to show that people are so addicted to technology that leaving the house isn't even a thought that runs through their minds. By the end of the story, Mead gets arrested, and for what? He gets arrested because his human instincts, the need to be outside and in nature are still a habit for him meaning that he no longer belongs in that society.
Everything happens because they want everyone to be easy to control, like they said in the story, “Ever since a year ago, 2052, the election year, the force had been cut down from three cars to one. Crime was ebbing; there was no need now for the police, save for this one lone car wandering and wandering the empty streets.”
After all I previously mentioned, I think that it goes to show that they have a reason for getting people hooked on technology, this is because they forget the person they are and just become so addicted that it takes away the human in them, unlike in this man.
By Mika Rodríguez, Step 11
