Was this story intended to make people think about what was going wrong in the world and what could possibly happen if no changes were made?

I believe that “There Will Come Soft Rains” was clearly intended to warn people of the time about the problems that could happen in their world if they did not change their ways. Like other stories by Ray Bradbury, it warned about the effects of technology on our society and our world.

Bradbury was clearly worried that technology was dangerous to human beings. In stories like “The Pedestrian” and books like Fahrenheit 451, he wrote about societies that had lost their humanity because everyone was entranced by technology. In “There Will Come Soft Rains,” he does not seem to worry about dehumanization. In this case, he appears to worry that our human nature, combined with our technological advances, will destroy us all.

In this story, the US is very technologically advanced. We have developed to the point where we have automated houses that do everything for us. The houses do everything from producing food to entertaining us. We live lives of luxury and ease. However, not all of our technological advances have been good. Instead, we have also developed nuclear weapons that can kill us all (as has apparently happened in the story), making our luxuries irrelevant. Because our human nature is violent, our technology becomes the ultimate danger to us.

I believe that this is what Bradbury was trying to do with this story. He was trying to makes us think about his idea that our technological advances were dangerous. He was warning us that we could potentially destroy ourselves if no changes were made.