Edward Morgan Forster, or E.M. Forster, is considered one of the finest British writers of the 20th Century. He is most famous for having written the novels Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room with A ...

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Puppetry, Multi-Media, and Sci-Fi Collide in Theatrical Adaptation of E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” In an imagined future where everyone lives alone in identical, underground cells, having all ...

Given the current confinement imperative, one is confronted everywhere with the idolization of detached digital communication, turning necessity into a virtue. Given the authoritarian tendencies of ...

Long before Hollywood made killer robots seem all too plausible, the British author worried that technology would undermine humanity by making life too easy. Our species will get backstabbed by ...

Imagine a time when pandemic, war and environmental decay have forced us to live underground. Imagine each of us living alone, communicating only through our devices. Hard to imagine? Such a future ...

In 1909, Edward Morgan Forster published a story, “The Machine Stops,” which now seems astonishingly prescient. One does not normally associate E. M. Forster with science fiction: he is considered ...

Two people live in a dark technological utopia/dystopia - "the Machine". Kuno and Vashti, have differing opinions about the world which they live in and their interaction and conflict as their society ...