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kiah_reads 's review for:
The Machine Stops
by E.M. Forster
This is really good, and when I'm reading this coming off a year of self isolation and the transformation of human interaction into zoom calls, timely.
I know humanity now is not within the Machine, but perhaps Forster was right and slowly we are being enveloped within it, its calm convenience replacing the more difficult face to face workings of the world.
I'm glad I read this, and I'm glad I can think on it, and consider my life choices by knowing that this (though a fictional story) is akin to a warning from nearly 100years ago and I should heed it.
We can always learn from fiction, there is no shame in that.
I know humanity now is not within the Machine, but perhaps Forster was right and slowly we are being enveloped within it, its calm convenience replacing the more difficult face to face workings of the world.
I'm glad I read this, and I'm glad I can think on it, and consider my life choices by knowing that this (though a fictional story) is akin to a warning from nearly 100years ago and I should heed it.
We can always learn from fiction, there is no shame in that.