There Will Come Soft Rains Technology Essay

In "There Will Come Soft Rains," Ray Bradbury shows readers several negative effects technology has made on mankind. Those effects are: People relying strongly on technology, Depending on technology can cause a person to lose their importance, and No matter how “strong” technology may be, nature overpowers all. Technology can be both destructive and helpful. In this story RayBradbury presents two sides of a technology debate. One of the sides is that technology is beneficial. On the other hand, the other side shows readers the fancy tech was incapable of saving the people lives. First of all, one of the negative effects technology has made on mankind is people relying strongly on technology. In the story the house is completely automated and runs on its own. ‘Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody

As Sara Teasdale Stated: ‘Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree. If mankind perished utterly; and Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, would scarcely know that we were gone.’ (pg. 327) This explained how nature will keep existing on without us. It was created to thrive and grow, unlike the robots and machines that perished in the fire. Also the narrator states: ‘The garden sprinklers whirled up in golden founts, filling the soft morning air with scatterings of brightness.’ (pg. 325) The sprinklers were a part of nature that brought life as it filled the soft morning air with brightness. This is important because all of the other machines seemed to be robotic and dull, showing that there may remain a little beauty in this world. The narrator also says in the story how the whirred mice was angry and how they were having to pick up mud. In Bradbury’s world even the natural portion of our world the mice aren’t natural. The mice “whirred”, giving readers the idea the mice are robotic and are not really