This article is from the peer-reviewed journal Americana: The Journal American Popular Culture (1900-Present), which publishes scholarly articles about American pop-culture. Devers analyzes how technology displaces the home. The advancement of technology (especially during the cold war’s advancement of military technology) means that the human race has to rely less and less on the traditions of human labor and can allow technology to takeover in the home. Devers uses specific examples to emphasize, Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” being one. This article has allowed me to see how the technology of the home completely depletes the value of Mrs. McClellan as a housewife. Also, that the house’s personification means that family is
