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EM Forster wrote "The Machine Stops" in 1909.
The pallid protagonist, Vashti, need not move from her hexagonal pod to communicate with friends, deliver lectures to a worldwide audience, listen to music, receive books, be administered medical treatment, or call for food - by pressing a series of electric buttons and switches, all of which contribute to the perpetual humming of the Machine.
— Dec 22, 2022 03:43AM
The pallid protagonist, Vashti, need not move from her hexagonal pod to communicate with friends, deliver lectures to a worldwide audience, listen to music, receive books, be administered medical treatment, or call for food - by pressing a series of electric buttons and switches, all of which contribute to the perpetual humming of the Machine.
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Much SF of the Anthropocene is a Neo-Romantic fascination with how a place - this place, our place - becomes a ruin.
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