Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story 'There Will Come Soft Rains' depicts a fully automated smart house in Allendale, California, on August 4, 2026, continuing its daily routines—announcing the date, prepa…

AI companies, including Anthropic, are buying, scanning, and shredding rare physical books at an unprecedented scale to train large language models, according to a Futurism report citing a settled law…

A Saturday 11 Jul 2026 post on an unspecified blog explores examples from science fiction of voice interfaces with limited, single-purpose domains, citing ATMs, toll doors, and clocks from works by Wi…