The Machine Stops

ISBN-13: 9781518606250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 64 str.

E. M. Forster

Opis

The Machine Stops is a science maserpiece by E.M. Forster. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with -Homelessness-. Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end.