![]() ![]() ![]() All entertainment comes via The Machine, from books and on-screen lectures to ‘music-tubes’.There was the button that produced literature.” When she’s ill, she consults a doctor remotely. ![]() Her home is an early prototype smart home: “There was the cold-bath button.This could describe almost any social network. Protagonist Vashti communicates with thousands of people through a computer screen, but has no emotional intimacy with any of them.By speculating instead on human nature, Forster was still able to predict the world we now inhabit: TV and telephones were still in their infancy. Remarkably, Forster was writing around 30 years before the first digital computer. The story is striking for predicting not just the internet, but how we rely on it. In it, Forster describes how future humans adapt to technology – and how it eventually destroys them. But he also wrote short stories, including The Machine Stops (1909). Forster didn’t just predict the internet in his 1909 short story The Machine Stops – he foresaw the dangers of going digital.Įdward Morgen Forster is best known for novels about love and duty, including A Room with a View (1908) and A Passage to India (1924). ![]()
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