So imaginative for 1909! Staying at home with the telly and internet and instant messaging and videoconferencing, google and pizza delivery and all flats and all cities look alike. And the world he describes feels so appalling, although we are good on the way to be where Forster imagined us - shocker. (Wikipedia)Ī condensed rapidfire of details and ideas imagining a dystopian world. Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with "Homelessness". People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Machine Stops
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