Every day humanity comes up with new ways to make life easier, new ways to protect us, and new ways to lessen our work. People have come to be very dependant on technology, from simply opening a door to protecting us with the awesome power of the atom bomb. Because of our dependence on technology, in the end it becomes our doom as depicted in There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury.

People as a race have become so indolent that now machines can do virtually everything for them. People have created a machine to take care from things like opening a door, to heating things in an instant, to the creation of the ultimate weapon, the atom bomb. Many of these things humanity doesn't even need to survive, yet people have entered a state of mind where they think that it can't live without a cell...