August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains By Ray Bradbury

Technological Advancements Effects Within Society

Albert Einstein, a theoretical physicist, once said,”It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”During the 1950s, the first atomic bomb was created, The Manhattan Project, and released on Japan by the United States. From this event, author Ray Bradbury wrote a short story in hopes that the citizens of the US will understand that technology has destroyed them rather than saved them. This science fiction short story “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains,” is about a world set in 2026 where the world fought each other with nuclear weapons.I personally believe that technology has done more good to the human race than bad because it has given us many more advantages within the last few hundred years.

To begin, there were multiple examples

This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles.“This suggests that a nuclear weapon was used because the city has been destroyed and it gave off a “radioactive glow which could be seen for miles.”This is significant because it shows how technological advancements has harmed society since entire cities and their population could be eradicated in an instant.Furthermore, In paragraph 12, it states,”The five spots of paint—the man, the woman, the children, the ball—remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer.” In other words, there were a family who died, but a spot of paint of them remained, as stated by “five spots of paint [...] remained.”This is worth to note because it demonstrated how a high-tech creation has harmed society since it caused people to be aware that other countries have the potential to drop a bomb anytime.As a result, technology has also done a considerable amount of damage to