Her reluctance to do so spells her own doom. Kuno wants his mother to accompany him outside, where he is sure that he once saw some living human beings. Now, however, the machine has started to falter, to lag in its daily attentions to the human parasites that infest it. His protagonist, Vashti, is largely content with her situation, and displays nothing but irritation at the attempts of her son, Kuno, to interest her in the forbidden regions outside.Įverything - nourishment, entertainment, contact - is supplied by the Machine, which is now the main deity worshipped by mankind, despite having been originally designed to serve them. Forster in his long short story "The Machine Stops," first published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review in November 1909.įorster envisages a world where people live cocooned in little cells, with audiovisual contact with one another, and minimal travel from place to place. Clearly I'm not the first one to notice the extraordinary prescience shown by E.
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