Jan Beta on Nostr: I started reading E.M. Forster‘s novella "The Machine Stops" yesterday. While first ...
I started reading E.M. Forster‘s novella "The Machine Stops" yesterday. While first published back in 1909, it describes recent phenomena like the internet (including its enshittification) and the decline of meaningful social interaction in scarily accurate ways. We could have known. #ReadMoreBooks
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