'There Will Be Soft Rains, And The Veldt'

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Time travel that change the entire human lifestyle, post-nuclear holocaust that wipe out the whole human race, electric rooms that kill: these are the subject of Badbury stories. All of Bradbury’ stories show a glimpse into the future with a harmful point of view because Bradbury; a short story writer believed that technology will endanger the humans human species in the near future. Bradbury wrote books warning humans to be careful for what they create because the technology that they have created may succeed any human costing humans their life. All in all Ray Bradbury’s “Sound Of Thunder”, “There Will Be Soft Rains”, and “The Veldt” clearly demonstrates the theme that science and technology should never come at the expense of a human life.

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