August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains.

August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains. "In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk."(Bradbury, 906) Is this the house we have imagined? "There Will Come Soft Rains" says that, yes, we can build magnificent machines: beautiful houses to cater to our every need, a …

…day our mistakes cause everything our race has ever achieved to be obliterated. That our society is designed so that such obliteration could come by accident proves how precarious our situation has proven to be that "There Will Come Soft Rains" has the very real possibility of becoming our future, if our overconfidence in our immortality persists. "Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is..." (Bradbury, 911) but nobody answers; This can be our real future.