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The Machine is Stopped
1984 never quite came true, and neither did Brave New World...but those were not the only dystopian futures that we needed to fear.Jessica serves the future state as a Professional - a member of a tiny class of bureaucrats teetering far above the wretched and dependent Clients who are all that is left of humanity.
But Jessica – isolated in a cell-like room, supplied by drone, communicating only through electronic screens – depends in turn on the machines that are her only remaining connection to the outside world, and whose pitiless algorithms judge her every word, every gesture, and every heartbeat.
This homage to the classic novella The Machine Stops reimagines E.M. Forster's prescient vision for our age of ubiquitous social media, technological isolation, and therapeutic totalitarianism.
But Jessica – isolated in a cell-like room, supplied by drone, communicating only through electronic screens – depends in turn on the machines that are her only remaining connection to the outside world, and whose pitiless algorithms judge her every word, every gesture, and every heartbeat.
This homage to the classic novella The Machine Stops reimagines E.M. Forster's prescient vision for our age of ubiquitous social media, technological isolation, and therapeutic totalitarianism.
169 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 1, 2022
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September 8, 2022
This book is a sci-fi/political/dystopian book that explores what happens when we spend too much time on our screens. A little heavy-handed sometimes, sure, but overall well done.
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