![]() ![]() George agrees and locks the door he suggests that Lydia has been working too hard and needs to rest. She demands that George lock the nursery and tell the children, Wendy and Peter, to stop reading about Africa. But Lydia replies that it feels too real. While Lydia cries in terror, George laughs and consoles her, saying that none of it is real. The lions approach George and Lydia, “feverishly and startlingly real.” As the lions break into a run toward the couple, Lydia screams and they both run out of the nursery. Lydia hears a scream, but George, in awe of the “mechanical genius who had conceived this room,” doesn’t notice. They observe vultures above and lions in the distance, feeding on something. In the nursery, a perfect, three-dimensional rendering of an African veldt surrounds George and Lydia. It does this by receiving “telepathic emanations” from the children’s minds. The Hadley parents walk to the nursery, which turns out to be a virtual reality environment-a room that can immerse users (in this case, the Hadley’s children) in a virtual world of their own imagining. As the kitchen automatically makes dinner for them, Lydia asks George decide to take a look at the nursery, or call a psychologist to examine it. The Happylife Home is a futuristic house that automates almost every human routine: it cooks and cleans, turns lights on and off, transports the Hadleys to their bedrooms via an “air closet,” and even rocks them to sleep. George and Lydia Hadley think something is wrong with the “ nursery” in their expensive Happylife Home. ![]()
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