E. M. Forster
The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops, by E. M. Forster (1909)
A short dystopia from 1909 which predicts TV, Internet/WWW, social distancing and isolation, control of reproduction, severing of normal family and societal ties, and total technocracy – and total technological collapse among an utterly dependent, helpless populace.
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