For my final post ever, we're going to bring things back full circle and examine ourselves during quarantine in the context of "There Will Come Soft Rains". The main thing I want to focus on is the role of technology. Now, one might think "Jenna, isn't it more obvious to talk about "The Machine Stops" in this context and technology?" And to that I would say, maybe, but there is something important in "There Will Come Soft Rains" that I want to point out. In this story, there are no humans left, and this house is presumably the only one left that continues to run on its own. All of the technology in the house is made to serve humanity - the kitchen cooking breakfast, automated garage doors, little mice to clean everywhere - none of it is A.I. and there for itself. The technology was created by humans, for humans, and as far as we see, it stays that way. However, without the existence of the entities that it serves, the house falls apart (l