When my husband and I were in San Francisco a couple of weekends ago, we rode the air train at the airport. At each stop, a pleasant female voice would say, "Arriving at _______ stop. Please check around you for any personal belongings and watch your step." Although nothing is wrong with having an electronic reminder, I still thought of how Bradbury writes in Fahrenheit about his fear that technology would make our society more and more impersonal. Who was the voice? She seemed like she cared about the people on the train, but she wasn't real. It reminded me of the robot friend drawing I showed in class.
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