Ray Bradbury: Finding Inspiration In Technology
What if?
Ray Bradbury's August 2026 There Will Come Soft Rains is an excellent example of how fiction and fact overlap when the writer asks the simple question—what if?
Writers inspire technology as much as they take inspiration from the devices and processes that terrify them.
Star Trek and cell phones might come to mind. Some would argue that Kirk and the crew were the first humans to use a flip phone.