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

4.0

Over a hundred years old now I first read this short story back at school. I didn't realise then how prophetic this work was (It certainly envisioned what we now know as the internet) and whilst some of the predictions from a practical sense might not have come to pass (yet) one can see the dangers in a world where people increasingly live their lives through their phones and tablets and fail to actually experience the beauty around them as they indulge in the sanitized 'selfie' vision of life.