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What is the name of the Isaac Asimov story about a post apocalyptic automated house?
What is the name of the story by Isaac Asimov on a post apocalyptic automated house? The story of a house automated operation of the clock, such as work even though no one else is to be alive working. Eventually, the house burns and can not save itself because it loses all resources on feeding a family that was already dead. Anybody know what the name of history?
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_ (short_story) "Set in 4 of August 2026 in the town of Allendale, California, There Will Come Soft Rains details the daily tasks of a robotic house after its inhabitants (Mr. and Mrs. McClellan and his son and daughter) were killed in a nuclear war. The house is still in good condition, fully automated and sensitive to their owners and their requests and needs. He continues to serve the family dead, unaware of his absence, despite knowledge of other external and internal shocks such as weather and the birds trying to land on it. Throughout history, the house makes breakfast, she has not eaten, and performs various chores. The house is communicated through a series of recorded voices and synthesized from a call of attention in the morning at 7:00 AM and 7:15 announcing the date 3 times in the kitchen. The title comes from a poem by Sara Teasdale, there will come soft rains that have been selected and recited by the audio system of the house to entertain the now defunct Mrs. McClellan at 9:05 PM in the study. The poem talks about the extinction of mankind, thus providing a dramatic force of the actual facts of history. Only one living thing makes an appearance in history: the family dog, which had been gradually die of radiation poisoning. It makes its way back to the house only to die, his corpse is then swiftly removed by the automatic cleaning robots of the house. The author mentions a time of family silhouettes were permanently burned into the side of the house (as seen in Hiroshima) when evaporated by the flash of the fireball atomic explosion. Eventually, the house burns down when a tree limb falls through a window and crashes into bottled cleaning solvents, which make burst and spilled on the stove. Although the house attempts to save itself with water and chemical extinguishers, their years of service without regard to understocked have left emergencies and quickly succumbs to the flames. As another day dawns, the house has been reduced to a pile of smoking rubble. Only one wall remains feet and its construction in the sensors detect the sun's rays, the recorded voice before and kept in solitary out on behalf of the new day time and again. "
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