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E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops

“Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan”. The Machine Stops pictures a future in which humanity has abandoned the surface of the Earth, grown unable to breath the atmosphere, and moved underground in the so-called Machine: a planetary system of individual cells, each hosting a […]