A review by bl_on_the_dl
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

4.0

"The clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned; neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms. Seated in her armchair she spoke, while they in their armchairs heard her, fairly well, and saw her, fairly well." written in 1909, could've been written in 2020.