Technology In The Veldt And There Will Come Soft Rains

Ray Bradbury illustrates the benefits that come with technology, but not without exposing the faults that come along with it.
In both stories, the house essentially acts as a servant to the families inside.
This is verified in “The Veldt” when Bradbury reveals how the house “clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them.” (1)
This quote expresses to the reader how the house manages the family and tends to both their wants and needs.
The house in “There Will Come Soft Rains” overindulges its occupants equally.
For instance, at “nine-fifteen,” the clock sings, “time to clean.”(1) (Analogously?) Like the other, this house eliminates the need for its residents to complete simple chores and decisions.
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This pampering, while convenient, is ultimately handicapping them in the long run.

In both novelettes, Bradbury exemplifies how technology can be used to greatly improve the daily life of humans, but at what cost?
As identified by Lydia, “Why, you’d starve tomorrow if something went wrong in your kitchen. You wouldn’t know how to tap an egg.” (8)
Just as Lydia remarks to George, they have become too dependent upon the technology they possess.
Gadgets are great and all, but Bradbury is attempting to prevent his readers from resting solely on them while forgetting the everyday tasks people can sometimes take for granted.
In addition, Lydia also discloses another effect of the ease that accompanies technology, emptiness.
She tries make her husband aware of the damage, expressing, "You look as if you didn't know what to do with yourself in this house, either...You're beginning to feel unnecessary too." (3)
Whilst the machine fulfills their roles as the parents, the couple begins to feel insignificant and

Mankind must fight the urge to be blinded by technology’s benefits and to consider what must be lost to gain these conveniences.

Ray Bradbury aspires for his audience to see that technology is not worth the risk it poses to mankind as a whole.
Technology in a way is used to replace humans and in “The Veldt”, the house especially tries to replace the mother.
“I feel like I don't belong here,” Lydia confesses,“the house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid.” (The Veldt 3)
However trivial Lydia might feel, we see that the machine will never be able to raise a child the way a mother can, no matter how advanced the technology.
Children need to be loved and nurtured, especially as infants, in a way that only a human parent can provide.
Peter and Wendy grow up desensitized to a myriad of things which can be blamed on the lack of a loving, nurturing