Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)

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The automated house continues its daily routines, unaware that its human occupants are dead.
The house stands alone in a city reduced to radioactive rubble and ashes.
Silhouettes of a family are burned onto the house's west wall, frozen in their last moments.
A dying dog enters the house, eventually dies, and is incinerated by the house's systems.
The house catches fire from a broken window and attempts to extinguish itself but fails.
The fire destroys the house, leaving only one wall with a voice repeating the date.

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Cats with flammable rags tied to their tails were used to spread wildfires in southern Italy.
Evidence of arson includes candles and delayed ignition devices.
Firefighters have conducted over 160 missions in Calabria's Pollino National Park.

Using a fan to cool off but minding trip hazards.
An underpowered air conditioner fails to cope with non-winter weather, with a solution involving monitoring people near an open server room door.
A fax machine works poorly in wet weather; telco tests find nothing until a technician's mistake reveals the issue.

An experienced alpinist is accused of leaving his girlfriend to die at a mountain summit.
"Gone with the Wind" influenced American myths about slavery and Southern women.
A Harvard Ph.D. scientist fatally shot three colleagues, with family history revelations emerging.

Climate change is severe but largely ignored as not cost-effective to address.
Massive AI data centers are prioritized despite consuming water, emitting CO2, and generating heat.
The US president, with control of nuclear weapons, starts wars without plans and faces no checks.

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