<div dir="ltr">The Machine Stops (which I remember reading in English class in the 70s) is now being serialized as a comic book:<br><br><a href="https://www.comixology.com/The-Machine-Stops-1/digital-comic/76209">https://www.comixology.com/The-Machine-Stops-1/digital-comic/76209</a><br>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Harvey Newstrom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@harveynewstrom.com" target="_blank">mail@harveynewstrom.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I always had a fondness for E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops".  It was<br>
written in 1909.<br>
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It predicted:<br>
- a world-wide communication network<br>
- everybody self publishing and broadcasting from their homes<br>
- counting followers to determine worth<br>
- having "friends" via the network instead of in person<br>
- everybody staying home and socializing through communications<br>
- preferring on-line experiences over real world experiences<br>
- and everybody becoming dependent on constant entertainment and support<br>
from the -machine.<br>
<br>
The "Machine Stops" was first published in the Oxford and Cambridge Review<br>
in 1909.  Brilliant prediction.<br>
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<a href="http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html" target="_blank">http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html</a><br>
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