In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian Novel, Fahrenheit 451, we are given a warning of what’s to come if we trade thought engaging books and teachings for five minute TV shows without the slightest plot and other meaningless distractions. The character, Mildred, is the lead character, Montag’s, nugatory shell of a wife who lets technology completely control her life and doesn’t take the time to think about anything at all. She’s unable to feel passion due to the plethora of sleeping pills the government supplies everyone and love is a lost concept to her and she isn’t even aware of it. Looking at today, technology is controlling our lives and we are all beginning to read less and less in scientific studies. We are already losing culture, and actual meaning in leisure like music and TV is becoming more and more vacant. We’re walking on a slippery slope, and if we aren’t careful we could all slip and fall into that absent-mindedness Ray Bradbury portrays in Mildred.