The two main characters, Vashti and her son Kuno, live on opposite sides of the world. Vashti is content with her life, which, like most inhabitants of the world, she spends producing and endlessly discussing secondhand 'ideas'.
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Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and threatened with Homelessness.
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I’ve been thinking about The Machine Stops a lot since the start of covid, it’s wild that it was published in 1909.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
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What!? This is insane. Thanks for sharing.
How Unmechanical of you.
Seriously though, wow that is unbelievable how it was written then.