Science as Nightmare: 'The Machine Stops' by E.M. Forster

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Going ahead, the first explanation of the world of fake utopia and computer domination is EM Forster "machine stop" issued in 1909. In "Machine Stop" people live in the basement, few individual "cells". There is no direct contact. Foster introduces the concept of television screens and videoconferencing, and society that meets the needs of all people through computers. Unfortunately, the machine is collapsing, and the main character of the story, Kuno, understands that people need to reconnect with nature living on the surface of the earth.

Machine shutdown was a speculative science fiction written by E. M. Foster in 1909. To achieve this goal, we predict the Internet, instant messaging, and related technologies. His story features a society that made a big machine to take care of itself. At some point, people had to go to the ground and have to forget why they did. In this world context, it is a person who care about machines. They are much smaller than those who use this wonderful machine, they feed food, control the climate, carry them, and allow them to use all the time they study and socialize on the internet. It looks like heaven. Of course, of course in science fiction - anyway it is good - it necessarily will cast doubts about morality, morality, and human condition.

1909, E. Forster wrote a short story called "The Machine Stops". This is derived from a kind of dystopia novel. Since this influential story began, Foster's theme and fears have been reflected in Destopia's science fiction literature. This unforgettable story depicts the society of the future that lives in the basement, a completely sophisticated, bureaucratic and technology based infrastructure service has deteriorated and collapsed over the years. "Machine stops" investigates this society. Because citizens are increasing their reliance on technology from the loss of human curiosity to the stagnation of evolution. By doing so, Foster studied human creation of organized religion and its adverse effects in society.