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News & popular culture & observing various ideas & Sci-Fi concepts that become a technological reality. What is reality in general? Some say that it's all part of a cosmic simulation.

Friday, June 24, 2022

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster

The_Machine_Stops was first published in 1909. Technology has taken over how people live. The people no longer remember that it was humans that built the tech which led up to the global controlling machine.

https://jimmiekepler.com/2015/02/13/short-story-the-machine-stops-by-e-m-forster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#Plot_summary 

  • "Both George Lucas's film THX 1138 (1971) and the original novel version of Logan's Run (1967) by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson bear multiple similarities to "The Machine Stops".  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops#Related_works  


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Labyrinth:_THX_1138_4EB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Plot p1932

w1883 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century#Summary , 
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/337109.Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century , 
https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/review_essays/taves71.htm , 
https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/books/unreal-futures-jules-vernes-paris-in-the-twentieth-century , 
https://www.openculture.com/2016/01/jules-verne-accurately-predicts-what-the-20th-century-will-look-like.html

What if EM creates such an integrated AI run civilization and it suddenly stops or seriously malfunctions?
JF at 9:46 AM
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