Subj : Re: the machine stops
To   : August Abolins
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Mon Jul 08 2019 03:34 pm

-=> On 07-07-19 22:39, August Abolins wrote to Everyone.. <=-

 AA> I just discovered and finished reading EM Forster's "The Machine
 AA> Stops". It's a sci-fi short story/novella.  It is set in a world where
 AA> humanity lives underground and relies on "the machine" for all its
 AA> needs.  It predicts instant messaging and the internet; that's pretty
 AA> interesting for something published 110 years ago.

It's amazing how prophetic some science fiction was, when written at a time
long before we even looked like having the means to create the technology.

 AA> A short story by Mark Twain in 1898 (published in 1904) might even
 AA> contain an earlier imaginging of the internet or social media in
 AA> greater detail. But I haven't read that one, yet.

Looks like some reading coming up. :)


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