[ExI] Slow Tuesday Night

[Max More]

The Machine Stops (which I remember reading in English class in the 70s) is
now being serialized as a comic book:

https://www.comixology.com/The-Machine-Stops-1/digital-comic/76209


On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Harvey Newstrom <mail at harveynewstrom.com>wrote:

> I always had a fondness for E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops".  It was
> written in 1909.
>
> It predicted:
> - a world-wide communication network
> - everybody self publishing and broadcasting from their homes
> - counting followers to determine worth
> - having "friends" via the network instead of in person
> - everybody staying home and socializing through communications
> - preferring on-line experiences over real world experiences
> - and everybody becoming dependent on constant entertainment and support
> from the -machine.
>
> The "Machine Stops" was first published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review
> in 1909.  Brilliant prediction.
>
> http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html
>
>
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