As we read The Veldt, you may want to explore Shmoop to learn more about this story. Under the heading, "What is the Veldt and Why Should I care?" the authors of shmoop write: Because new technology can often be scary. It can promise to make your life easier and better, but it might come with hidden costs, too. That's what "The Veldt" is all about: new technology and its hidden costs. And this worry isn't something that we left behind in the '50s; just a couple years ago someone (smart) published an article called "Is Google Making Us Stupid?". We want to say no because we're major Googlers ourselves, but new technology can change the way you think and even remember info. Our brains don't have to work as hard, because with things like GPS, distances and directions are judged for us. That function is no longer required of our minds. Shmoop goes on to report: We may look at this story and think that Bradbury is worrying over nothing. (TV isn't that bad.) Or we might read "The Veldt" and find it horrifyingly familiar. (What does Google diabolically have planned for us next? Internet in our eyeballs?) Sure, Bradbury's story may be very 1950s in some ways, but it's pretty universal, too. So read it. Just don't go into the nursery. What do you think the hidden costs of technology are? Do you think that we rely on technology too much? Do you think we trust it too much? What aspects of The Veldt do you see incorporated into this video?
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