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 #HowardZinn

Have revered #EMForster 's #TheMachineStops ever since discovering it 1000 years ago. Decided i prolly should read more of him, so atm am ~2/3 thru #WhereAngelsFearToTread . Oh damn, is this a case of never meet your heroes? Ugh, the #empirism, #imperialism, #sexism, but most overtly of all, the #racism. Ugh. Is he simply of his time, or is he even worse? 🤔🤷

Given that for many years now all my leisure #eBook reading is #GutenbergProject #ePubs on my tablet, by definition most if not all of this is old to extremely old works, ergo, i am consuming a nearly unbroken diet this way of obsolete appalling societal attitudes. I wonder if my decision years ago therefore to construct my eBook #library this way in order to digest, learn, & enjoy lots of classic English, French, Russian et al #literature, is actually helping or harming me [given my natal intense #misanthropy & #depression hardly need much encouragement]. 🤯

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> ... this vision of the world of E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops,” in which the individual lives in a cell, hooked up with the central machine, the big organization, which sees to it that the cell is air-conditioned and provided with food and means of recreation. This is a world in which all forms of complicated connection between people seem to have been destroyed, in favor of their single connection to the machine.

#TheMachineStops by #EMForster sounds like Matrix?
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Die permanente Nutzung des Smartphones, das hektische Tippen und der ständige Blick aufs Display lassen uns in einem ununterbrochenen Zustand der Daueraufmerksamkeit leben.
Es ähnelt einem virtuellen Vibrieren, das uns überall hin begleitet.

Werden wir dann doch einmal vom Datenstrom getrennt, ist die Stille fast unerträglich.

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#DieMaschineStehtStill
#sciencefiction
#EMForster
#EdwardMorganForster
#TheMachineStops

Dieser ironisch zu verstehende Aufruf derjenigen, die sich vollständig von filternden und verfälschenden Medien abhängig gemacht haben, macht deutlich, wie absurd es ist, wenn wir uns immer mehr von der unmittelbaren Realitätserfahrung entfernen und unsere Menschwerdung aus den Medien erschaffen.

Die Message von #EMForster aus dem Jahr 1909 ist ganz klar:

Geht raus!
Macht euch euer eigenes Bild von der Welt!
Lebt!

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#DieMaschineStehtStill
#sciencefiction
#EdwardMorganForster
#TheMachineStops

Je mehr man sich von den Fakten und der unmittelbaren Naturerfahrung entfernt, umso mehr werden wir geprägt durch den Filter der Medien.
Es besteht dadurch die Gefahr, dass eine parallele Erzählung von der Natur den Platz der Realität einnimmt und allmählich der Konsens entsteht, die Realität sei die Erzählung.

Auch diese uns gegenwärtig beschäftigende Realitätsverfremdung spielte #EMForster bereits 1909 in #DieMaschineStehtStill durch.

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#sciencefiction
#TheMachineStops

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

„Sie betätigte den Isolationsknopf, sodass sie niemand mehr erreichen konnte, tippte mit dem Finger an den Lichtapparat, und das kleine Zimmer versank in Dunkelheit.“ (S. 6)

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#hoffmannundcampeverlag
#DieMaschineStehtStill
#sciencefiction
#EMForster
#EdwardMorganForster
#TheMachineStops

Basado en el cuento de E.M. Forster: La Màquina Se Para

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> 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don't forget the alt text).

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My next book: E. M. Forster "The Machine Stops".

#nates1984 #emforster #themachinestops #books

Just finished this short story by EM #Forster – #TheMachineStops. Published in 1928 it resonates with both #LuxuryAutomatedCommunism and #TechnoUtopianism narratives with a dystopia of a future where humans have swapped connection and reality for video conference and automated comforts. It’s a bleak apolitical future where technology is God, and quite on track for the nightmare path many evangelise where technology is put ahead of all that keeps us human.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

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#EMForster's #TheMachineStops was written in 1909 (114 years ago) and it is prescient of today's world. It is downright scary how right Forster's was in how humanity is treating itself and its dependence on machines.

https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/Machine_stops.pdf

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#TheMachineStops written in 1909 by #EMForster should be read by everyone working on developing #ArtificialintelligenceAI

The long shadow of the machine age falling over civilization and its threat to personal relationships

#EMForster #TheMachineStops #Edwardian #Scifi