But how would Forster know of digital interfaces? That would have been too much to foresee. And the loss of Patience! Damn this is good and so true - with one big exception the many buttons for all the machines functions. 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. Something good enough had long since been accepted by our race. And the world he describes feels so appalling, although we are good on the way to be where Forster imagined us - shocker. The imponderable bloom, declared by a discredited philosophy to be the actual essence of intercourse, was rightly ignored by the Machine, just as the imponderable bloom of the grape was ignored by the manufacturers of artificial fruit. (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. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forsters The Eternal Moment and Other Storiesin 1928. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review. The Machine Stopsis a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. Forster.After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forsters The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Forster - 'The Machine Stops' is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story by E.

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