A 50-year-old short story written for today

Boing Boing is highlighting a curious synchronicity: Ray Bradbury, in a short story written around nineteen fifty, imagined robotic assistants performing daily household tasks in an apparently empty world—and set the story on August fourth, twenty twenty-six. The tale includes a voice-clock singing the hours to an empty home. It's an odd moment where vintage science fiction happens to match an actual calendar date.

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