There Will Come Soft Rains: The Looming Threat of Nuclear Warfare and the Ever Present Reality of a Technological Takeover
In Ray Bradbury's short story There Will Come Soft Rains , based on the poem of the same name by Sara Teasdale, we see a post-apocalyptic setting, where all that is left in the city we are set in, is one technologically advanced house, maintained by robotic systems, continually running every day, even while the house's inhabitants are long gone. While this short story was published originally in 1950, it details a not so far away future, in the year 2026, where humanity has been wiped out to our knowledge, and all that is left is automated machines. This comes at the start of the Cold War, where the Soviet Union and the United States were both in competition to have the most nuclear weapons stockpiled and use them to intimidate one another. This is truly a testament to the time period it was published in, but the ever-looming presence of nuclear warfare is massively present in our modern society today. To this day even, the United States and Russia are the numbe...