In “Time Enough At Last”, Henry Bemis is a character whose prominent characteristic is his love for reading. However, this is taken to the extreme by him that it gets in the way of his work and relationships such as his boss and his wife. It is also this love of reading that let him survive twice. The first is when he locked himself in the bank’s safe when the hydrogen bomb hit and killed everyone just to be able to read, while the second is when he spotted the remnants of the public library just when he was about to shoot himself out of boredom and pointlessness.
If this episode could be adapted into modern times, one may change Henry Bemis to someone who has an internet addiction, which would be similar as his usage of the internet would get in the way of his work and other related activities towards the people around him. I would also change the hydrogen bomb to a nuclear one, and that he would be hiding inside a nuclear shelter just to be able to use the internet. Lastly, instead of his glasses it could be that the monitor of his computer breaks instead. The radiation would force him to stay inside, which makes his fate all the more believable as opposed to his monitor breaking and him just finding another computer to use.
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