🧩 Philosophy 13h ago · Adam Newgas

Do you have any ideas?

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The Machine Stops (E M Forster, 1909) is an enormously prescient sci-fi dystopia. Everyone lives in isolation, with the titular Machine responsible providing for all their needs, and communication done via video calls. It’s incredibly accurate for predicting some aspects like the internet, social media and AI. But other aspects, like humanity’s total surrender of control to the Machine, have yet to come to pass.But one aspect that always fascinated seems to be on the verge of becoming true. The

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