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11.    Describe three capabilities of the houses mentioned in the article.

One, before you even get up the house starts heating up, then at seven o’clock when the alarm goes off it signals to turn on your light and the coffee maker. Once you step into the bathroom, the news will pop up on a video screen and shower turns on automatically. Two, once you leave it will automatically lock the doors, and if someone comes to the door, you can open your phone and see who it is. If you know who it is, you press a button on the phone and it will unlock the door and let them in. If you don’t you press a button and it with turn an outside light on. Three, if you are low on anything in the refrigerator it will order groceries, and they will have the groceries there for you when you get home. Also if you start cooking something it will record you hands, so if you have to stop you will know where you left off.

22.    Who is intended to benefit from living in such homes? How? 

It is built for the elderly to make domestic life easier and to extend the independence of older homeowners.

33.  Bradbury’s home is similar to the actual homes being built because in There Will Come Soft Rains it starts the bathtub just like the actual homes start the shower. They both have some way of helping with cooking and helping with groceries. In the actual house building the heat turns on before they wake up and in There Will Come Soft Rains it heats the beds before they go to bed. Also, they have a built in alarm and built in coffee maker, and they have a security alarm.

44.   I think the most useful innovation would be the built in alarm, because my biggest struggle is getting up in the morning. I would actually get up in time cause it would force me to get up and I don’t think I could sleep through it.

Every morning they would wake up at seven o’clock, seven-nine the alarm would yell breakfast time. Eight-one they would go off to school, or work.  Nine-fifteen a song would sing time to clean. Ten o’clock the sun came out behind the rain, and ten- fifteen the garden sprinklers went off. Twelve a dog whined at the door. Two o’clock a song sang and two-fifteen the dog was gone. At two thirty-five they would play cards. Four-thirty the nursery walls glowed. Five o’clock the bathtub would fill with water, and six, seven, eight o’clock the dishes were cleaned. Nine o’clock the beds were warmed with their hidden circuits and at nine-five a voice would speak from the ceiling. Last at 10 o’clock the house began to die.