Describing its system, Bradbury writes, “The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs. The owners were vaporized in the blast, leaving the house to continue functioning on its own. In “There Will Come Soft Rains,” a fully-automated house is left isolated after a nuclear fallout. Technology is used every day for tasks, yet this reliance can be carried to extremes, such that we are no longer independent, replaced by technology in even the simplest of tasks. Just as he predicted, we humans have become so dependent upon our technology that, when we risk losing both our control and humanity, our abuses thereof can ultimately threaten and endanger us. Bradbury’s predictions about technology have in today’s world become evident. He warned in his book how a reliance on technology is not to our benefit. Written in the middle of the 20th-century, the collection of short stories is designed to showcase the many threats posed by technology against its very creators. Picture what you think the future will be like in 50 years: Will there be flying cars, intergalactic space travel to other planets, space colonies, and smart houses that will be able to do anything you want them to, with everything perfected to function automatically, so that no one has to do any work? While this is a dream for many, it is a nightmare for author Ray Bradbury, whose science fiction book The Martian Chronicles details the dangers of a technologically dominated future.
0 kommentar(er)
