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Publikuota 2008 m. liepos 10 d.
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology Modern Short Stories. In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two. The story, set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide its needs, predicted technologies similar to instant messaging and the Internet.
Given the age of this story, it's surprising just how relevant E.M. Forster's dystopia remains.
Considering this book was first published in 1909 it is clearly mentioning technology such as Skype, undersea cables, the Internet, etc. It just blew my mind how this all became reality right down to us living in a room connected to others solely by The Machine.
