Response to Lois Tilden's "Sleep, My Little One." A response to a short science fiction story about a world that never sleeps - literally - and the probility of such a future.
Title: Response to Lois Tilden's "Sleep, My Little One." A response to a short science fiction story about a world that never sleeps - literally - and the probility of such a future.
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 504 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Response to Lois Tilden's "Sleep, My Little One." A response to a short science fiction story about a world that never sleeps - literally - and the probility of such a future.
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 504 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Sleep, My Little One" is a science fiction story that has the same general prediction as many speculative and science fiction stories; the degradation of the quality of life. This story, however, focuses on a much overlooked luxury: sleep. In "Sleep, My Little One," Lois Tilden predicts a day when science has found a way to end a need for sleep. Instead of sleeping for eight hours, all that is needed is a thirty minute …showed first 75 words of 504 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 504 total…about the quality of the time, and more about the quantity of it. Most people cheat sleep as much as they can as it is; when was the last time you slept for 8 hours at night? In an age of coffee, no-doze, and 24 hour stores we march valiantly into an age when mankind is slowly yet surely stripped of its creativity and emotion and forced into the same mold as a computer and a robot.
