💙📚 Recently finished #TheMachineStops #EMForster Three out of four stars. Would recommend (but -not- this edition; print on demand should not exist!) Might read again. "Imagine, if you can, a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee." Continuing with: #APeople'sHistoryOfTheUnitedStates

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#TheMachineStops (1909)

As Greg says find it at:

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together with 5 others.

The Machine Stops - Whats The Show ‘THE MACHINE STOPS’ Stage Play adapted by Briony Dunn from the short story by E.M. FORSTER. Playing at TheatreWorks, St Kilda from 23rd – 30th August, 2...

Catch Jenni's take on 'The Machine Stops' at Theatre Works St Kilda! ⭐ Melbourne buzzes with this dystopian gem. Check it out! #TheMachineStops #Melbourne #Theatre #MelbourneTheatre #TheatreWorksStKilda

Are people going to end up get chipped up and going into their job interviews giving ChatGPT answers? Maybe it'll have a use for people who need to talk through their relationship problems and can't be bothered to engage with it. Maybe happening already. (By text.) #themachinestops

3️⃣When I want to feel the future: its fragility, fear, fire, I turn to #SpeculativeFiction. The Machine Stops (1909) is prescient, painfully poetic, questioning control, connection & cost of convenience🤖

Speculative stories don’t just warn, they wound, just enough to wonder

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‘Shipwrecked in the 21st century’: how people made it through Europe’s worst blackout in living memory Daring rescues were attempted, quick commutes turned into hours-long odysseys, cars were directed by baguettes – but the show went on in the world’s best restaurant

Read #TheMachineStops, LP Hartley, 1909

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The Machine Stops : E. M. Forster : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Written in 1909, E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops is a tragically prophetic meditation upon the consequences of man's over reliance upon technology.It...

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“ #TheMachineStops” is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's
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Siempre se habla de 1984 de George Orwell y de Un Mundo Feliz de Aldous Huxley, pero creo que esta es la distopía que más está acertando #LaMáquinaSePara #TheMachineStops de Edward Morgan Forster

Ein golden eingerahmtes Sechseck mit schwarzer Innenfläche, die am Rand mit filigranen Pflanzenornamenten verziert ist. In der Mitte steht grün schimmernd: „Sie betätigte den Isolationsknopf, sodass sie niemand mehr erreichen konnte, tippte mit dem Finger an den Lichtapparat, und das kleine Zimmer versank in Dunkelheit.“ E.M. Forster (S. 6)

Cover des Buchs "Die Maschine steht still" von E. M. Forster. Dunkelviolett gehalten. In der Mitte befindet sich ein beigefarbenes Sechseck worin "Die Maschine steht still" in Großbuchstaben steht. Der Hintergrund besteht aus zahlreichen hellviolettfarbenen Sechsecken. Der obere Rand ist eine rote stilisierte Sonne worunter "E. M. Forster" steht.

E. M. Forster wusste schon 1909 die heimliche Macht des Flugzeugmodus einzuschätzen. Er nannte ihn dereinst allerdings "isolation knob".

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