[D66] The Machine Stops

[René Oudeweg]

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  The Machine Stops

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    E.M. Forster/, The Machine Stops/


          *With an Introduction by Dominic Pettman*


            *Volume 10 – January 2021*

“Forster’s tale – something like an Edwardian version of /Black Mirror/
– still resonates, because it was perhaps the first literary depiction 
of the dangers inherent in midwifing our nascent electronic nervous 
system, and designing things so that we become forever attached to our 
machines, like overgrown babies connected to the Matrix via electronic 
umbilical cords. […]”


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