The lecture today continued to discuss the works of the golden age of Science Fiction, mostly on the works of Ray Bradbury. Despite the damage done to the building, the time announcement remains, calling out the date in a seemingly endless loop. The house attempts to put out the fire and save itself, but all of its efforts fail and the fire spreads to the point in which the house collapses. The story reaches it’s climax when a fire breaks out in the home due to an act of nature. It will tend to our needs because that is what it is programmed to do, but it would be unaware of our absence when faced with it. But the story also drives home the point that technology, despite all of its wonders, is still unaware and uncaring of our own existence. This in turn gives us a look into what life was like for the owners of the house, now disintegrated in a nuclear blast. Tasks include announcing the time, preparing the food, readying space for games and feeding the dog. Instead of focusing on any human characters, as there are none to be found, it instead focuses on the technology that are incorporated into the housing structure and how it’s programs continue it’s scheduled tasks despite there being no one occupying the home for a seemingly long time. Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is a story looking at a single day of a home after a nuclear apocalypse kills off mankind.
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