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- Nov 2020
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You’ve let this room and this house replace you and yourwife in your children’s affections.
Children's dependence on and love for their parents has been replaced by technology
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Their approach sensitized a switch somewhere and the nursery light flicked on when they came within ten feet of it. Similarly, behind them, in the halls, lights went on and off as they left them behind, with a soft automaticity.
The background is the future, where people have higher technology, but are more distant from their children.Because a nursery can provide everything a child needs
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“Don’t let them do it!”wailed Peter at the ceiling, as if he was talking to the house, the nursery. “Don’t let Father kill everything.”He turned to his father. “Oh, I hate you!”“Insults won’t get you anywhere.”
It is against the rules that technology affects people so much that children become more attached to it than their parents
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The Veldt
The genre: Science fiction
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