This short story was believable according to the time of place that it took place. We as humans expect the future to be filled with advances in everyday life. The house in this story had devices that would make everyday life more manageable. I hope that in the future we have inventions like these but I honestly think that 2026 is too soon to see such changes. I also hope that we don’t see too much reliability in technology because if we do we might see the human population become lazy and have less purpose in life. The only thing that was missing from our definition is extra terrestrials and space/time travel. What it lacked in those aspects it made up in things like technology, robots, and the setting of the story (year 2026).
A couple of extrapolations were found throughout the story. For example on the first page there was talk of a voice clock, a breakfast stove, a weather box, a hot washer and tiny robots that cleaned the house. As a whole, all of these extrapolations give the reader a sense of being in the future where we would expect more simplicity in life. If the extrapolations weren’t present then I think this piece would lose its image of being science fiction.
I really enjoyed this story. It kind of made me wonder how reliant we are going to be on technology and how we are already so reliant on it. It was kind of sad reading towards the end because the house was so advanced that it seemed it had feelings. For example, it reading the poems even though everyone was gone and making meals for the family it missed. The line of the poem that went, “not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, if mankind perished utterly” made me think about our place in life as humans and our impact on the world.
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