For this post, I am going to talk about “ The Veldt”. Although I don’t see our world becoming completely overrun with machines any time soon, I can still see how it is possible for anything no matter what is to become unhealthy if it isn’t regulated. In this short story, the children were exposed to the nursery as their only form of parental figures and entertainment because their true parents weren’t spending the time they should have with them. Their parents saw the opportunity for their lives to become potentially carefree, but didn’t think about how not having anything to do on their own wouldn’t give them any reason for growth. And for their children, the nursery essentially became the drug that they were addicted to, because their parents were too trusting of the technology to be the solution to their upringing. I would say then, technology isn’t inherintly bad, but rather the amount of dependence someone decides to have on it. This would be the same for other types of things as well. For example, if you are constantly growing up living around people who excessively work out only eat certain things, or always critisze the same character trait, the result would be in hyperfixation on that specific thing. This would yield unhealthy results if not regulated by less time with that specific activity or having any variety. If not regulated, emotions, too, are heightened, which was shown when the children’s “friend”, the nursery, was threatened to be taken away. This would make it seem that the technology was controlling their actions, however, the technology in the room may have adapted to become truly realistic because it was given the leeway to do so by the ones who purchased it in the first place.