At least in this story, the power of technology is written as a much more significant and lasting force in the world than the fragile human life that created it. The story's characters are entirely robotic or technological--we have the robot voice speaking to the absent family, the scurrying techno-mice that clean the place, the breakfast and dinner making machines, etc. All of these pieces of technology were, long after the family was, alive and well in a world that most of humanity had been destroyed.
It was technology itself that destroyed the fragile human and animal life that existed on the planet; after the blasts, technology was the only thing that survived, at least for a while. The humans in the story are completely wiped out, but their home functions without them. So, the frailty of human life is pretty evident in the story, as being powerless against the force of technology. I hope that those thoughts help a bit; good luck!
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