The realization of technology one day parenting a future generation is frightening. In addition, technology becomes further involved in people’s lives everyday. Ray Bradbury writes about the future role of technology in society with apprehensiveness through short stories. He demonstrates through “The Veldt” and “There Will Come Soft Rains” that humanity’s further dependence on technology will be detrimental to society. “The Veldt” depicts the Hadley family as slaves to their reliance on technology, only to find it more harmful than beneficial. Lydia alerts George of her suspicions about the nursery, “They walked down the hall of their Happylife Home, which had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and …show more content…
Their children have come to rely more on the Happylife Home than them. George questions Lydia’s request when she ask to turn the Happylife Home features off, “But I thought that’s why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything?” (2). George doesn’t want the Happylife Home features off so that him and his wife won’t have to help their children or themselves. Lydia admits that the house can do whatever she can twice as good. Due to this, they are both realizing they are starting to feel unnecessary to their children. Peter asks George if he will ever lock up the nursery: Peter admits he’s been playing with Africa and states he never wants them to lock the nursery because of how dreadful a lifestyle of work would be. Peter doesn’t want the house or the nursery off because he would then have to think and do for himself. Technology like the house limits people’s intellects by not letting them think beyond what they already know making them indolent. Later, George and Lydia conclude to take a vacation away from the house: Peter and Wendy lock their parents in the nursery with the voracious lions in an attempt to stop them (11).