In "There Will Come Soft Rains," what can you infer about the lives of the former inhabitants?

Bradbury's futuristic short story, "There Will Come Soft
Rains," presents a world in which the quotidian humanity has been removed.  For, it is
the technologically-advanced house that expresses human action. Examples of this assumed
humanity that characterizes the machinery of the house are evident throughout the
narrative.  The "voice-clock sang,"  the garage "lifted its door," the tiny robot mice
"darted," and "thudded against chairs," "popped into their burrows" where their "pink
electric eyes faded."

Outside, the charred figures of the
residents of the house have their images burned into wood, revealing their last
actions.  The boy and girl were playing ball, the mother picking flowers.  They are
nothing but shadow of themselves, just as they have been mere shadows of human beings
when alive.  It is, after all, the house that is the
person:

It
quivered at each sound, the house did....

[When the house
catches fire]  The house tried to save itself....The house gave ground as the fire in
ten billion angry sparks moved ....

The house shuddered,
oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves
revealed as if a surgeon had torn the skin off to let the red veins and capillaries
quiver in the scalded air.  Help, help!...And the voices wailed Fire, fire, run, run,
....And the voices fading as the wires popped their sheathings like hot
chestnuts.

Clearly, it is the
house that has assumed human qualities while the humans have been subsumed into the
technological world of Bradbury's narrative.