August 2026 There Will Come Soft Rains Analysis

Helpful Technology

Shoshana Zuboff, a Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business once said, “Technology makes the world a new place”. In the 1950s, technology had just started to advance into various things like, the atomic bomb, which caused people to become fearful of what technology the future held. Ray Bradbury is the author of, “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”, and he was an American fantasy and horror writer. The story, “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains”, by Ray Bradbury is set in the future and it is about a house that has technology that still works, even though all the other houses and people have been destroyed. In my opinion, machinery has helped society because it has made our lives easier. Automation has helped

In the article it states, “The cell phone has hurt our society in three distinctive ways. The first way was it reduced self-reliance, it has decreased our time management skills and the final way is it hurt our ability to communicate to one another” (3). This means that cell phones, computers, and other electronics have made us less self-reliant, it has also made us less aware of time, and it damages our communication to one another. This means that cell phones, technology, has made us less self-reliant, it has also made us less aware of time, and it damages our communication to one another. The article, “The Positives and Negatives Effects of Technology”, also states, “This can be very bad for our society because it is stretching people’s money forcing people that would normally just be fine with what computer they had to go out and buy the biggest and best technology so they can feel like they are a part of our technologically focused society” (2). This means that machines are hypnotizing people who would be fine with a normal computer into buying a new, bigger computer. This shows how electronics has harmed society because it tricks people into thinking the newer the better with machinery. Although I believe technology has helped us, the author clearly states how technology harms us in their article, “The Positive and Negative Effects of