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<h2>E.M. Forster<em>, The Machine Stops</em></h2>
<h5><strong>With an Introduction by Dominic Pettman</strong></h5>
<h6><strong>Volume 10 – January 2021</strong></h6>
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<p>“Forster’s tale – something like an Edwardian version of <em>Black
Mirror</em><br>
– 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. […]”</p>
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