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E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops[0] is probably the most prescient and early tale I've seen foretelling the outcome of Verilio's Pure War and Postman's Amusing
by ricopags 3y ago
E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops[0] is probably the most prescient and early tale I've seen foretelling the outcome of Verilio's Pure War and Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. It's worth a read.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
- prolapso 3y agoI've been meaning to read it ever since I saw this quote, which I found quite beautiful and sad: The Machine is much, but it is not everything. I see something like you in this plate, but I do not see you. I hear something like you through this telephone, but I do not hear you. That is why I want you to come. Pay me a visit, so that we can meet face to face, and talk about the hopes that are in my mind. - The Machine Stops (1909)
- ricopags 3y agoIt's a short, quick read. It's honestly shocking it could be written in 1909. True imagination. I think a nice balancing title [equally short] would be Marc Steigler's Gentle Seduction[0] to which I was first introduced in a "Socrates Cafe" philosophical discussion on technological progression and its attendant erosion of magic and wonder. [0]http://skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html http://skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html