https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._M._Forster
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"In 1909, EM Forster published a short story set in the future called 'The Machine Stops'. It was, he said later, a reaction to the utopias of HG Wells. In Forster’s vision, people in the future live in enclosed underground rooms, communicating only through video conferencing and messaging, engaging with people only through what is, fairly exactly, depicted as the internet to come. When the Machine breaks down, most people die immediately from the shock. Does Forster still speak to us?"
~ P. Henscher
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/11/howards-end-em-forster-television
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