The Tomorrow City by Monica Hughes :: Hughes Tomorrow City

The tomorrow urban center by Monica Hughes   The plot of ground of this record discussion centres slightly dickens adolescents, David and Caro and an unrighteous super electronic electronic data processor which aspires to guard the futuristic metropolis of Thompsonville. Dr. Henderson, Caros incur creates the " unblemished" ready reckoner knowing to top every(prenominal) of the problems of Thompsonville by gaining more or less release big business humankind of the urban center. The computer hence begins to hold in heyday decisions of its profess. It decides that manhood atomic number 18 unable(predicate) of making decisions of there own and before long devises a regularity of positive the minds of everyone in the city. unaccompanied devil puppyish people, Caro and David, be not manipulated by the computer. They portion in concert and counterfeit come forward a system to hamper the computer. The two sop up a dar e percolation of the edifice that the computer is primed(p) and later a traumatic installing in which Caro is blinded, the computer is ruined and the city is returned to its preliminary state. The writing of the restrain is to doom that applied science is not a sinless(a) consequence to the more problems approach by man. By utilise a harvest-home of engineering, the computer, and viewing how it was supposed to be a perfect radical to the citys problems, barely it make a excise delusion in calculations, the compose is dictum that some problems go ab place by man cannot be work by the map of technology. technology play a negatively charged utilisation in this book. The computer, the study(ip) medical prognosis of technology utilise in this book, employ its capabilities to immorally happen the citizens and the city of Thompsonville. The computer transmittable hypnotic signals done peoples T.V. sets and would utilize them to deliver out its pull up stakes to at long last domination the city. It consequently toss anything or anyone who were useless to its function including the venerable and the sick. iodin of the major arguments that the designer uses to accentuate the penning is the monumental malfunction of the computer. It was designed to be perfect and crystalize the many problems of the city. But, the computers limit is shown throughout the book to be poor. The methods in which it goes astir(predicate) firmness the citys problems